"Orbitual" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... absolute weight is one of the primary elements of organic construction. A change in the time of her diurnal rotation, as affecting the length of the day and night, must at once be followed by a corresponding modification of the periodicities of the nervous system of animals; a change in her orbitual translation round the sun, as determining the duration of the year, would, in like manner, give rise to a marked effect. If the year were shorter, we should live faster and ...
— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper |
