Harris, John · Montreal, Lovell Printing and Publishing Co. · leaf 175
e, causing it to gravitate towards andapproach the sun. Since the approach is very considerablein extent and rapid, so is the increase in the velocity pro-portionately great, and when the comet has arrived (i. e.,supposed to have arrived) at its perihelion P, it is movingwith enormous velocity past… … very near the sun and under the influence of an enor-mous attractive force, it suddenly ceases altogether toobey this force, and proceeds in the direction^EF, asshown in the figure, without any further regard to the COMPOUND SIDEREAL ORBIT. 11 central gravitating influence. If the body is…
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