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Assuming twilight is required, the following 3 results were found.

  • AURORAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURORA

    crepusculum, twilight; that faint light which begins to appear in a morning, when the sun is within eighteen degrees of the horizon. See CREPUSCULUM and TWILIGHT. The poets have personified, and even made it a goddess; representing her with a chariot,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    to refuse all Light, except that of Noon-day. We find our Ease and Happiness frequently depend on the doing of things by Twilight, or even Moon-light, or the still more dubious Light of, perhaps, a Rush or a Glow-worm. PYTHAGORAS, in all probability,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction
  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    of the Crepuscula. 'Tis allowed by Astronomers, that when the Sun is 18° below the Horizon, we begin or cease to see the Twilight: Now the Ray whereby we do it, can be no other than a horizontal Line, or a Tangent to the Earth in the Place where the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
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