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...Comets move in various orbits. They are sometimes attracted into the solar system by Jupiter, and here they are subject to disintegration, unless some impulse sends them again out of the system. Many comets have a fixed orbit and period; their orbits are very eccentric...
...planets are of small dimension relative to the great distances, and the sun preponderates. They move independent as it were, the perturbations being almost imperceptible. The ancients had a general idea of the attraction of the heavenly bodies. Their speculations about the orbils were not correct. With the revival of learning in the middle ages came a renewed attention to the investigation of astronomy. Copernicus, Tycho and Kepler were the foremost students. Copernicus renewed the rejected idea that the sun was the centre of the system of planets. Tycho, a rich nobleman in Denmark, established the first observatory. Kepler investigated...
...crew still runs down to the boat house and back, three miles, but will give up the runs in about three weeks, and move down to the boathouse...
...MANN Jr. Sec.JUNIOR CREW. - Be at boat-house at 4 p. m. to move boat...
...College of the City of New York will soon move into its new building which cost...