, or Combustion, is said of a planet | when it is in conjunction with the sun, or not distant from it above half their disc.
But according to Argol, a planet is Combust, or in Combustion, when it is within eight degrees and a half of the sun.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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