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Definition of Solar parallax
1. Noun. The angle subtended by the mean equatorial radius of the Earth at a distance of one astronomical unit.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Solar Parallax
Literary usage of Solar parallax
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy: Embracing the General by William Chauvenet (1874)
"The constant of solar parallax is the sun's mean equatorial horizontal parallax,
or its horizontal parallax when its distance from the earth is equal to the ..."
2. The Sun by Charles Augustus Young (1895)
"Determination of solar parallax by means of the Velocity of Ught; by Lunar and
Planetary Perturbations.—Illustrations of the Immensity of the Sun's Distance ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1889)
"Let - be the solar parallax, and <M and dD respectively the corrections to the
right ascensions and declinations of Venus given by Hill's tables of that ..."
4. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1891)
"ESH AND JMS solar parallax FROM THE TRANSIT OF VENUS PHOTOGRAPHS OF 1882.
Professor HARKNESS, USN,»reports that the photographs of the last transit of Venus ..."
5. On the Connection of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville (1846)
"Parallax—Lunar Parallax found from direct Observation—solar parallax deduced from
the Transit of Venus—Distance of the Suu from the Earth—Annual ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... purpose of determining the solar parallax this instrument has been used in a
most refined and perfect manner by Dr Halm at the Cape of Good Hope (Annals ..."
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