...and passes over it like a dark spot. Venus, when the evening star and separating from the Sun, moves from west to east ; or according to the order of the signs, or, as the phrase may still be varied, in consequentia. Returning towards the Sun, from her greatest...

...and passes over it like a dark spot. Venus, when the evening star and separating from the Sun, moves from west to east ; or according to the order of the signs, or, as the phrase may still be varied, in conseguentia. Returning towards the Sun, from her greatest...

...of a planet is said to be direct when it appears to a spectator on the earth to perform its motion from west to east, or according to the order of the signs. A planet is said to be stationary when, to an observer on the earth, it appears to have no motion,...

...nearer or more remote from the central body; and all their motions are performed in the same order from west to east, or according to the order of the signs. The motions and distances of the several planets are rrlatedto each other by invariable laws, viz....

...transits only when they are moving towards the west ; their motion round Jupiter must therefore be from west to east, or according to the order of the signs. The transits are real eclipses of Jupiter by his moons, which appear like black spots passing over...

...therefore, cross the ecliptic. Their apparent motions are very irregular; sometimes Direct, that is from west to east, or according to the order of the signs; and sometimes Retrograde, or from east to west. There are also times, at which a planet appears to be Stationary,...

...motion, or that which is found to take place, upon the whole, after a considerable interval of time, is from west to east, or according to the order of the signs : their motion is then said to be direct. But we have already seen in the instances of Jupiter, Saturn,...

...contrary to the order of the signs, another singular anomaly, as all the other planets and satellites move from west to east, or according to the order of the signs. Their magnitudes cannot be less than those of the satellites of Saturn, probably greater, otherwise...

...revolving round him, and, secondly, that the sun is a spherical body, having a motion of revolution from west to east, or according to the order of the signs of the zodiac ; for, first, they are observed to enter at the eastern edge of the disk, and to vanish...

...line which joins two different points from which it may be viewed. ASTRONOMICAL RESULTS AND LAWS. 1. The motions of all the planets in their orbits are from west to east, and are all subject to Kepler's Laws. 2. Kepler.s Laws. — (1) The radii vectores describe areas in...