precession of the equinoxes

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a slow westward shift of the equinoxes along the plane of the ecliptic caused by precession of the Earth's axis of rotation

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But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes. Antonin Artaud

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