DESCENDING
, a going or moving from above, downwards.
There are ascending and descending stars, and ascending and descending degrees, &c.
Descending Latitude, is the latitude of a planet in its return from the nodes to the equator.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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