...In the Queen of the Dwarfs and in Scimitar peas the pod is almost elliptic in shape... 
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...Thehead (k) encloses the elliptic nucleus in a thin envelope of cytoplasm;it is a little flattened on one side, and thus looks rather pear-shaped fromthe front (b)...
Ernst Haeckel 「The Evolution of Man」
...Instead of thisbeing the case, the axis of rotation of the earth is tipped so that theangle between the equator and the elliptic is 23½°...
Sterner St. Paul Meek 「The Solar Magnet」
...In January, 1783,Laplace published the elliptic elements...
George Forbes 「History of Astronomy」
...The first is, thatall the planets move round the Sun in elliptic orbits, and that the orboccupies one of the foci...
Thomas Orchard 「The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'」
...If Mars in his revolution around the sun were solely swayed by theattraction of the sun, he would, in accordance with the well-known lawsof planetary motion, follow for ever the same elliptic path...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...This elliptic orbit is mainly determined by the attraction ofthe sun...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...We arealso, in the case of several other periodic comets, able to fix in asimilar way the date when they started on their journeys in theirpresent elliptic orbits...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...It is this very fact that elliptic motion is so common in the planets ofthe solar system which renders its discovery in binary stars of suchimportance...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...The orbit of thetiny planet Eros is, however, far and away the most elliptic of all, aswe shall see when we come to deal with that little planet in detail...
Cecil G. Dolmage 「Astronomy of To-day」
...Will it hold for elliptic orbits? Will an inversesquare law of force keep a body moving in an elliptic orbit about thesun in one focus? This is a far more difficult question...
Oliver Lodge 「Pioneers of Science」
...One can explain the elliptic motion now mathematically, but hardlyotherwise; and I must be content to state that the double fact istrue—viz...
Oliver Lodge 「Pioneers of Science」
...Each planet revolves around the sun in an elliptic path, havingthe sun at one of the foci...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
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