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cate parallax. Following this by further ob-
servation, he found that the motions were
not uniform nor rectilinear, and by a clear
analysis of the movements he established
the remarkable and wholly unexpected fact
that in all these cases the motion is due to
a revolution about their common centre of
gravity.[11] He gave the approximate period
of revolution of some of these: Castor, 342
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