PARALLAX (Gr. aapa?X6, alternately)

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PARALLAX (Gr. aapa?X6, alternately) , in astronomy, the apparent

change

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to
barter
- BARTER (from Fr. barater, to
  truck
  - TRUCK
  , to exchange)
; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

in the direction of a heavenly

body

BODY

when viewed from two different points. Geocentric

parallax

PARALLAX (Gr. aapa?X6, alternately)

is the

angle

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the
primitive
- PRIMITIVE
form,
angus
- ANGUS, EARLS OF
, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

between the direction of the

body

BODY

as seen from the surface of the earth and the direction in which it appears from the centre of the earth. Annual

parallax

PARALLAX (Gr. aapa?X6, alternately)

is the

angle

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the
primitive
- PRIMITIVE
form,
angus
- ANGUS, EARLS OF
, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

between the direction in which a

star

STAR

appears from the earth and the 1 direction in which it appears from the centre of the sun. For stellar parallaxes see

STAR

STAR

; the

solar

SOLAR, SOLLER (Lat. solarium, Fr.• galetas, Ital. solaio)

parallax is discussed below.

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