solar maculation
English
Noun
solar maculation (uncountable)
- (astronomy, obsolete) Sunspots.
- 1885, Agnes M. Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, Chapter 2, p. 208,
- The idea that solar maculation depends in some way upon the position of the planets occurred to Galileo in 1612.
- 1885, Agnes M. Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, Chapter 2, p. 208,