EQUINOXES
, the times when the sun enters the Equinoctial points, or about the 21st of March and 22d of September: the former being the Vernal or Spring Equinox, and the latter time the Autumnal Equinox.
As the sun's motion is unequal, being sometimes quicker and sometimes slower, it hence happens that there are about 8 days more from the vernal to the autumnal Equinox, or while the sun is on the northern side of the equator, than while he is in moving through the southern figns from the autumnal to the vernal Equinox, or on the southern side of the equator. According to the obfervations of M. Cassini, the
| sun is | 186d | 14h | 53m | in the northern signs, |
| and only | 178 | 14 | 56 | in the southern signs, |
| so that | 7 | 23 | 57 | is the difference of them, or |
| nearly 8 days. |
EQUINUS Barbatus, a kind of comet. See HIPPEUS.
