Harris, John · Montreal, Lovell Printing and Publishing Co. · leaf 177
Force & Gravitation. 12 THE THEORY OP COMETARY ORBITS. planet or other mass of aggregated matters, revolvingaromid the sun (or other centre) under the influence ofgravitation, can suddenly divest itself of that influence,consequently the hypothesis w^hich supposes the orbitalpath of a comet to… … gravitating influence, to approach the sun, and even tomake a partial revolution about the sun, and then todepart or return to another system. To explain this more particularly v^^e refer to Fig. 1,(PI. 1.) where A. represents the sur^, and B. representsthe central star of a neighbouring system; C.…
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