Word: motion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...planets are Mercury, Venus, the Earth. Mars, Jupiter and Saturn and Uranus and Neptune. Uranus was discovered by Herschel, and Neptune was discovered by references to a point obtained by calculation of irregularities in the motion of Uranus...
...hardly be called poetry. "The Song of Man" by H. B. Eddy is certainly not poetry. "Melancholy" by Eugene Warner is rather below this author's former work. The simile in this last, "like an Oriental steeped in oblivious drug, insensate lying" is not pleasing. "On the Progressive Motion of One's Best Foot" by C. M. Flandrau is the cleverest thing in the number. It is written in an entertaining style and consists of some rather cynical advice as to how to make a good impression in society...
Every one has noticed the apparent north and south motion of the sun among the sun among the stars, from north in the summer to south in the winter...
Further, it has been discovered that the sun has a slower apparent diurnal motion than the stars; that is, the sun, and a star rising at the same time, the star would set before the sun. Careful measurements show that this difference in fine is about four minutes. The motions of the sun and stars differ in direction as well as in speed. The sun apparently moves in a great circle, a circle at the centre of which the observer seems to stand. While the courses of the stars are small circles. This great circle which the sun describes...
...Professor Searle went on to describe the motion of the moon with the reference to the earth and sun, and so came to the subject of eclipses. Eclipses of the sun, though generally partial, are sometimes total. In such cases the bright light which is visible around the sun is called the corona, and is supposed to be due to the reflection of light from floating particles in the sun's atmosphere. This, however, is only one of several theories about the matter. In a total eclipse, too, we notice certain red spots around the edge of the moon...