This he called the evection, and introduced another epicycle to represent it. From Wordnik.com. [Kepler]
In quadrature, however, where the half-moon formed a right angle at the earth with the sun, the distance moon-earth had to be reduced to conform with this “evection,” as it was called later. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
It then gives Ptolemy's own great discovery -- that which has made his name immortal -- the discovery of the moon's evection or second inequality, reducing it to the epicyclic theory. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science] Reference
He was a working astronomer, and he made at least one original discovery of some significance -- namely, the observation of a hitherto unrecorded irregularity of the moon's motion, which came to be spoken of as the moon's evection. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science] Reference
Moreover, such observations as the precession of the equinoxes and the moon's evection are as yet unexplained, and measurements of the earth's size, and of the sun's size and distance, are so crude and imperfect as to be in one case only an approximation, and in the other an absurdly inadequate suggestion. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science] Reference
A Flemish ecclesiastic, who had been guilty of the offence of doubting the evection, or bodily transport through the air, of witches and wizards. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
(Legion Live) National Memorial Arboretum Unveils Remembrance Plans: The Staffordshire - .. http://bit. ly/083JTpa #Military palaestina The #Israeli military hands out 25 evection orders to. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
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