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From the parallactic motion of the star it is possible to deduce its distance from the sun, or its parallax.

From Lectures on Stellar Statistics by Charlier, Carl Vilhelm Ludvig

He had all the volubility of a practised advocate, and seemed to delight in nothing so much as discussion, whether on the unconfirmed parallactic angle of Sirius, or the comparative weight of two straws.

From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph

Ptolemy’s parallactic rules, covered with brass, four cubits in the side.5.

From The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler by Brewster, David, Sir

In both cases the motion may be either a reflex of the motion of the observer, and is then called parallactic motion, or it may be caused by a real motion of the star.

From Lectures on Stellar Statistics by Charlier, Carl Vilhelm Ludvig

Unless the deviations from the parallactic line of the stellar motions balance one another on the whole, their discussion may easily be as fruitless as that of observations tainted with systematic errors.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 by Various