A Tour Through Sicily And Malta: in a Series of Letters to William Beckford ...
A Tour Through Sicily And Malta: in a Series of Letters to William Beckford ...
Patrick Brydone , William Beckford
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680 threw out a train that \vould almoft_have reached from the fun to the earth. If this had been attradl:ed by the fun, would it not have fallen jipbn his body ? when the coqiet at that time was not one-fourth of his diameter diftant from him ; but inftead of this, it was darted away to the oppoflte fide of the heavens, even with a greater velocity than that of the comet itfelf — ^Now . what can this be o\«png to, if not to a repulfive power in the fun, or his atmofpher? ? And, indeed, it woul...d at firft appear but little lefsabfurd, to fay that the tail of the comet is all this time violently attracted by the fun, although it be driven away in an oppofite direftion from him, than to fay the fame of the comet itfelf. It is true, this repulfion feems to begin much fooner to afFeft the tail, tha^ the body of the comet ; which is fuppofed always to pafs the fun before it begins to fly away from him, which is by no means the cafe with the iail. The repulfive force, therefore, (if there is any fuch) is in a much lefs proportion than the attradive one, and probably juft only enough to counterbalance the latter, when thefe bodies are in their perihelion^, and to turn them fo much afide,.as to prevent their falling into the body of the fun.
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