0 a star that is so far from the earth that it seems not to move in relation to other distant (= far away) stars as the earth moves through space
As seen from the earth, certain fixed stars appear to be in the neighbourhood of the sun, and are thus capable of observation during a total eclipse of the sun.
Indeed, we will necessarily have two lines which are engendered / in the orb of the fixed stars.
Each of the first six is dedicated to a description of some celestial motion (those of the prime mover, the sun, the moon, the other planets, and the fixed stars).
The trepidation school believed that the fixed stars first moved one way, then moved the other way - similar to a giant pendulum.
Of the ten orbs, the first seven contain the planets and the eighth contain the fixed stars.
Herschel engaged in a series of observations on the parallax of the fixed stars, using a telescope of his own design.
Its methods, its tactics and its manoeuvres may change, but the polar star of its policy—world domination—is a fixed star.
He looks at a fixed star.
