On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Note N. 102 — SECTION V.

Reading edition

Note 102, pp. 35, 36, 86. Perigee. A Greek word, signifying round the earth. The perigee of the lunar orbit is the point P, fig. 6, where the moon is nearest to the earth. It corresponds to the perihelion of a planet. Sometimes the word is used to denote the point where the sun is nearest to the earth.

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