Chapter

1 XIX   |    upon the planets which are nearest to the sun, and more, on
2 XXVIII|      her perigee, that is her nearest distance from the earth,
3 V     |      perihelion, that is, its nearest approach to the sun, it
4 IX    |    never reach her. As to the nearest distance at which it would
5 XIX   | gravitates. When the earth is nearest the sun she is in her perihelion;
6 XIX   |  Speaking of the moon, she is nearest to the earth in her perigee,
7 XIX   |       its “periselene” at its nearest. In the latter case, the
8 XXI   |     they should put in at the nearest port, and give information