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APPARENT MOTION

Volume 501 · 78 words · 1797 Edition

is either that motion which we perceive in a distant body that moves, the eye at the same time being either in motion or at rest; or that motion which an object at rest seems to have, while the eye itself only is in motion.

APPARENT PLACE OF A PLANET, &c., in astronomy, is that point in the surface of the sphere of the world where the centre of the luminary appears from the surface of the earth.