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 136
euler (1707-1783) The Solar System 97 ecliptic than the orbits of the large planets are. Also,the orbital eccentricities of the small planets present awider range. … LA GRANGE (1736-1813) Earth would freeze; nor at the opposite season could it everapproach so near the Sun that all forms of life would becomeextinct by reason of the excessive heat. It is the path of ourown planet in which interest chiefly centres: its eccentricity,already given in Chapter VI as…
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