The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Retrograde Motion

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The motion of the planets among the stars is eastward, but when they arrive in the quarter of the heavens opposite the sun their motion is westward, and this latter motion is termed retrograde--motion contrary to the order of the signs.

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