phenomenon

Last quarter

Cosmos

The moon’s half-lit disk waning toward new. Not first quarter, and not crescent alone.

  • Last quarter is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History tracks the waning quarter among moon-phase speech. A named last-quarter phase in that encyclopedia, not first-quarter and not full-moon.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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