Sentence examples for apparent motions from inspiring English sources

Isaac Newton distinguished absolute time from "relative, apparent, and common time" as measured by the apparent motions of the fixed stars, as well as by terrestrial clocks.

Even after this breakthrough, many years elapsed while scientists struggled with applications of Newton's laws to explain the apparent motions of planets, moons, comets, and asteroids.

The node is kept fixed, and the apparent motions of the Sun and the Moon (top portion of the figure) are shown relative to the node.

Also, for centuries, familiarity with the positions and apparent motions of the stars through the seasons enabled sea voyagers to navigate with moderate accuracy.

A large fluctuation in the Earth's rotational speed, ω, began about 1896, and its effects on the apparent motions of both the Moon and Mercury were described by the Scottish-born astronomer Robert T.A. Innes in 1925.

For many centuries practical navigators oriented themselves by relying just as strongly on meteorological clues (the directions from which steady winds blew) as on astronomical ones (the positions and apparent motions of the Sun and stars).

A short-range process in apparent motion.

Another aspect that may differ between short-range apparent motion, and the DFI and long-range apparent motion is the degree of ambiguity in the visual display.

After adaptation to the visual apparent motion with the sounds, the sounds acquired a driving effect for illusory visual apparent motion perception.

In the previous study19, a long-range visual apparent motion stimulus was used.

Ivry, R. B. & Cohen, A. Dissociation of short-and long-range apparent motion in visual search.