The epochs when the sun passes through the solstitial points. |
Now the townsmen are all out of doors on account of the solstitial holiday. |
Two great circles, the solstitial colure and the equinoctial colure, intersect at the celestial poles. |
On the surface of the sphere the equator, the ecliptic, the equinoctial, and the solstitial colures are represented. |
Great circles passing through the equinoctial and solstitial points, and the poles of the earth. |
We ca find the solstitial rectangle in the cromlechs of Western Europe mainly dating from Neolithic, but also as a structure of some temples. |