Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 131
TYCHO BRAH£ (1546-1601) planets are attended by one or more companion bod-ies called moons or satellites. Also, some of thecomets are known to consist of double or multiple 92 Stars and Telescopes portions. But the meteors mostly travel in vast shoalstogether, along orbits similar to those of… … kepler (i571-1630) vations of Tycho Brahe, and by extending to theother planets by analogy the conclusion derived there-from, established three simple laws according to whichthese bodies move in the same general directionround the Sun. Keplers laws are : (1) The planet-ary orbits are ellipses, with…
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