, the east, or the eastern point of the horizon.
Orient Equinoctial, is used for that point of the horizon where the sun rises when he is in the equinoctial, or when he enters the signs Aries and Libra.
Orient A<*>stival, is the point where the sun rises in the middle of summer, when the days are longest.
Orient Hybernal, is the point where the sun rises in the middle of winter, when the days are shortest.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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