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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Akt. X.A RESUME OB'THE VARIOUS THEORIES RESPECTING THE MAINTENANCE OF THE SUN'S LIGHT AND HEAT. TvOCTOR SIEMENS has just promulgated, before the March meet- J ing of the Royal Society, a new theory regarding the maintenance of the sun's light and heat, which is certain, to modify, if it does not entirely revolutionize, modern scientific doctrine upon this subject. The quantity of heat, which is annually radiated into space from our luminary is great almost beyond belief, so that any hypothesis with respect to its source, must appear equally wild and chimerical. Still whatever be the ultimate fate of this new theory, it will ever be looked upon as one of the noblest speculations of modern times, and as such well deserving of public attention. Before discussing Siemens' view, it may be well to glance briefly at the present state of speculation upon the subject. The quantity of heat, which is annually received by the earth from the sun, has been pretty accurately measured by Sir John Herschel, who, after a series of experiments upon a tropical sun at the Cape of Good Hope, was led to conclude, that the sun's direct heating effect at the sea level, is competent to produce the liquefaction of about half an inch of ice per hour. By a simple process in multiplication, the total quantity of heat received by the earth in v year, may readily be determined, and is found to be equivalent to a quantity sufficient to melt a layer of ice about 120 feet in thickness. But the earth receives only an infinitesimally small portion of the total radiation. If the sun radiates its heat in all directions (and there is no reason for believing otherwise), then our earth only receives the two thousand three hundred millionth part of the heat thus emitted, since its surface only occupies this porti...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217324731
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 182
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217324738
  • Publisher Date: 05 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 336 gr


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