Crossword-Solution: APOGEES 7 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Some get up glees, and are mad about Ries And Sainton, and Tamberlik’s thrilling high Cs; Or if painters, hold forth upon Hunt and Maclise, And the tone and the breadth of that landscape of Lee’s; Or if learned, on nodes and the moon’s apogees, Or, if serious, on something of AKHB’s, Or the latest attempt to convert the Chaldees; Or in short about all things, from earthquakes to fleas.

Here's this Parawelopipedon going around ruining everything he can lay his claws on, and instead of helping me out of the fix I'm in, and starting the expedition off, you sit here and tell me about Apogees and other things I haven't time to hear about." "I was only smiling to show how sorry I was," said the major, apologetically.

Despite their family likeness, the styles of the two regions are distinct; and, as the investigations of Uhle show, they have undergone long and changing developments, with apogees well in the past.

Pliny has given of this phenomenon a description remarkable for its exactitude, and in it one sees that the ancients had observed that the tides of each month are greatest toward the syzygies and smallest toward the quadratures; that they are higher in the perigees than in the apogees of the moon, and higher in the equinoxes than in the solstices.

The careful observations of the Arabs soon shewed the defects in the Greek astronomical tables, and new tables were from time to time issued, based on much the same principles as those in the _Almagest_, but with changes in such numerical data as the relative sizes of the various circles, the positions of the apogees, and the inclinations of the planes, etc.