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| Description: Over 690 astronomical topics with many illustrations that provide a complete glossary reference. Includes terms, meanings, derivations and phonetic pronunciations. An appendix, "A Smattering of Linguistics for Astronomers," provides explanation of the features of Greek, Latin, English, and Arabic necessary to understand why we spell and pronounce things the way we do. You will want one for your reference, but you'll read it for pleasure and cultural diversion. Softcover. 8.5"x 11". Here is a sampling from the glossary section: ARIEL: a satellite of Uranus. The satellites of Uranus have mostly been named for characters, mostly female, in Shakespeare's plays; in The Tempest Ariel is an airy spirit, assistant to the magician Prospero. A different aname Ariel is Hebrew ("lion of god," from aryeh, "lion"), a place-name mentioned in the Bible but now used as a male forename. SYNODIC: period of a body; the period between its return to the same place in its orbit as seen from the moving earth. Thus for Jupiter the synodic period is that between its conjunctions with the sun (or oppositions). Contrast sidereal. (Greek sunodos, "meeting, synod, conjunction," from sun, "with, together," and hodos, "road.") | |||||||||