See also:

• EVECTION (Latin for " carrying away ")

EVECTION (Latin for " carrying away ")  , in See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy, the largest inequality produced by the See also:

• ACTION

action of the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun in the monthly revolution of the See also:

• MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
• MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)

moon around the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth . The deviation expressed by it has a maximum amount of about 1° 15' in either direction . It may be considered as arising from a semi-See also:

• ANNUAL

annual variation in the eccentricity of the moon's See also:

• ORBIT (from Lat. orbita, a track, orbis, a wheel)

orbit and the position of its See also:

• PERIGEE (Gr. zrepi, near, 'A', the earth)

perigee . It was discovered by See also:

• PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy .