Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles

Note 62 — CHAP. XVI. The Phenomena of the Harvest-Moon explained by a common Globe: The years in which the Harvest-Moons are least and most beneficial from 1751, to 1861. The long duration of Moon-light at the Poles in winter.

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The Sun advances almost a degree in the Ecliptic in 24 hours, the same way that the Moon moves: and therefore, the Moon by advancing 131⁄6 degrees in that time goes little more than 12 degrees farther from the Sun than she was on the day before.

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