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Chapter 6, Figure 17
Figure
6.17
(A) Precession
of the Moon's orbit. Notice its similarity to twisting a tilted book that
has one edge resting on a table.
(B) Precession
of the Moon's orbit causes eclipses to come at different dates in successive
years.
