...We can have large and small ellipses justas we can have large and small circles, but we can also have ellipses ofgreater or less eccentricity...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...It leaves, however, boundless latitude in the actual eccentricity of thecurve...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...It is true that he was not this time ableto say that the eccentricity of each path will remain constant; this isnot the case...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...What he does assert, and what he has abundantly proved, isthat the eccentricity of each orbit will always remain small...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...The point midway between the pins is the center of theellipse, and the distance of either pin from the center measuresthe eccentricity of the ellipse...
George C. Comstock 「A Text-Book of Astronomy」
...A page or two back we touched lightly on the eccentricity of the orbit ofMercury—lightly, because it was not the chief factor in disabling theplanet for habitation...
E. Walter Maunder 「Are the Planets Inhabited?」
...If the two pins bebrought nearer together the eccentricity will decrease, and the ellipsewill approximate more closely to the shape of a circle...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...If the pins beseparated more widely the eccentricity of the ellipse will be increased...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...This eccentricity of orbit, ordistance of the sun from the centre, is very small...
Henry Warren 「Recreations in Astronomy」
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