, or Radius Vector, in Astronomy, is a line supposed to be drawn from any planet moving round a centre, or the focus of an ellipse, to that centre, or focus. It is so called, because it is that line by which the planet seems to be carried round its centre; and with which it describes areas proportional to the times.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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