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Bible Encyclopedias
Satellite
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(from the Lat. satelles, an attendant), in astronomy, a small opaque body revolving around a planet, as the moon around the earth (see Planet). In the theory of cubic curves, Arthur Cayley defined the satellite of a given line to be the line joining the three points in which tangents at the intersections of the given (primary) line and curve again meet the curve.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Satellite'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/s/satellite.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Satellite'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/s/satellite.html. 1910.
