colure
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Where the ecliptic crosses the solstitial colure is the spot where the sun appears to be when it is farthest north of the equator, June 21st.
From A Field Book of the Stars by Olcott, William Tyler
He is now advancing among the stars, and will soon be again upon the equinoctial colure.
Thus after seventy-two years the colure of the vernal equinox which passed through a fixed star, corresponds with another fixed star.
From Letters on England by Voltaire
The reverence paid to Taurus continued long after, by the precession of the Equinoxes, the colure of the vernal equinox had come to pass through Aries.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
Then if the Earth's pole look to E, the �quinoxes are at D, C. Let this be at the time of Metho, when the horns of Aries were in the �quinoctial colure.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William
