Citations:solifugal

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English citations of solifugal

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  • 1877 — Henry Muirhead, "Dr. Muirhead on Terrestrial Magnetism, etc.", published in Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, Volume 10, page 130
    By the action of this rotation also these curvilineal crossing currents will be further complicated, in consequence of the sun's radiating = solifugal drift, constantly surging against new meridians—i.e., in ever altering directions.
  • 1939 — Charles Glenn Wallis (translator), Epitome of Copernican astronomy: The organization of the world and the doctrine on the theoria, Book 4, Part 1, page 216 (originally published in Latin as "Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae" (Volume 2) by Johannes Kepler, 1620)
    But in the intermediate positions, where the solipetal or the solifugal termini regard the sun directly, the strength of the libration is greatest of all.
  • 1955 — A.S. Kalapesi, "The Origin and Evolution of the Earth", published in The Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, Volumes 9-11, page 19
    The non-rotating planet proto-Terra was situated in a current of solifugal ice molecules.
  • 2014 — R. Catesby Taliaferro, Rational Mechanics: The Classic Notre Dame Course, page 72
    For the planet as a magnet is composed of magnetic threads which are all parallel and which are on one side solipetal (attracted to the sun) and on the other are solifugal (repulsive to the sun).