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itself about 3° 28', it is obvious that the distance of Ei 

 from the transit region is about 34°; and as the conjunc- 

 tions in the region Ei approach the transit region qq' at 

 the rate of 2° 22' every eight years while the conjunc- 

 tions in the region pp' recede at the rate of 2° 22' every 



Figure 26. The regression of the conjunction lines of Venus and the Earth. 



eight years, it is clear that a conjunction must occur 

 within 17° of either the pp' or the qq' transit region 

 every eight years. It is this eight-yearly conjunction 

 in the neighborhood of the transit regions which is syn- 

 chronous with the eight-yearly terrestrial phenomena 

 that we have already described. This eight-yearly cycle 

 is the Venus cycle for which we have been in search. 



