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Definition of Perigees
1. perigee [n] - See also: perigee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perigees
Literary usage of Perigees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Planetary Diagrams for Roman Astronomy in Medieval Europe, CA. 800-1500 by Bruce Eastwood, Gerd Grasshoff (2004)
"The near points, or perigees, which are points of swiftest apparent ... Pliny lists
the zodiacal signs for apogees; he does not name the signs for perigees. ..."
2. The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Colour of the by Augustus James Pleasonton (1876)
"... d when in their several perigees or nearest pointa to ' the Mm, ... when they
had severally reached their perigees by the magnetism of tho sun. ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"But in all nature what is there so stupendous as to examine and calculate the
motion of the planets, their magnitudes, apogees, perigees, eccentricities, ..."
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