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another brief pause, it once more goes forward with increasedspeed, as though to make up for its lost time. It is well toremember that its backward motion is generally termed itsretrogression, its forward motion its progression, and thepauses between the two, its stations, or stationary'points. It is,
Fig. XXV.—Portions of the apparent paths of Jupiter and Saturn, as seen from the Earth ,according to Cassini.
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moreover, important to observe, that the diagrams also indicatethat the reversed motion occurs when the planet is particularlynear to the Earth .
In addition to the reduced view of the complete drawing ofCassini of the apparent path of Mercury during certain years,we will also give in our next three figures, portions (similarly