Solstice
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"For all men begin, as we said, by wondering that things are as they are, as they do about self-moving marionettes, or about the solstices or the incommensurability of the diagonal of a square with the side." --Metaphysics (4th century BC) by Aristotle |
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- The point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun.
- One of two days in the year when the day (as opposed to the night) is either longest or shortest, 20 or 21 June and 21 or 22 December.
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