...It takes the moon therefore 27d5h 5m 36s (27·21222d) to perform a journey in its orbit fromone node back to that node again; this is called a Draconic period...
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
...Rahu's head marks the ascending, Ketu, thetail, the descending node...
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
...Andif joined into a solid ring its node would regress; and it would do so, onlymore slowly, if encumbered by the spherical part of the earth’s mass...
George Forbes 「History of Astronomy」
...’ When crossing the ecliptic from south to north the Moon is inits ascending node, and when crossing from north to south in itsdescending node...
Thomas Orchard 「The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'」
...of the node...
George Chambers 「The Story of Eclipses」
...Just how many days' motion theearth may be away from the node and still permit an eclipseis shown in the following brief table of eclipse limits...
George C. Comstock 「A Text-Book of Astronomy」
...Henoticed that the advance of the date of the shower between 902 and 1833, at therate of one day in seventy years, meant a progression of the node of the orbit...
George Forbes 「History of Astronomy」
...of the node, the conjunction must, inprocess of time, take place so far back from thenode that no eclipse will occur, and the serieswill end...
George Chambers 「The Story of Eclipses」
...After another18 years, at the second repetition, the earthis a day farther from the node than at first,and the eclipse differs still more in character,etc...
George C. Comstock 「A Text-Book of Astronomy」
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