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Precession of the equinoxes   Listen
Precession of the equinoxes

noun
1.
A slow westward shift of the equinoxes along the plane of the ecliptic caused by precession of the Earth's axis of rotation.





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"Precession of the equinoxes" Quotes from Famous Books



... thinking it possible that the human race is a witness of an exceptionally unchanging and stable condition of things, if the calculations of Mr. Croll are valid as to how far variations in the eccentricity in the earth's orbit together with the precession of the equinoxes have produced changes in climate. Mr. Wallace has pointed out[229] that the last 60,000 years having been exceptionally unchanging as regards these conditions, specific evolution may have been {227} ...
— On the Genesis of Species • St. George Mivart


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