Category: Science - Physics
Figs. 1 to 8. Types from nature, illustrating development of a solar system from the attenuated matter of space Frontispiece. Fig. 9. A typical sun-spot 57 Fig. 10. Structure of the sun, analytical illustration of 60 Fig. 11. Electrical polarities of sun and planets 82 Fig. 12...
The remarkable resemblance between the mode of operation and effects of these electrical induction machines and the vast rotating electrosphere of the earth must be at once appa...
3. CHAPTER II.The various theories thus reviewed, while not sufficient in themselves to account for the facts of our own solar system, are fatally defective in another respect. While they aim...
17. xiii. 21 it is said that "Jeove went before them by day in a pillarof a cloud," this is explained, in chapter xiv. verse 19, to mean that this pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night was Mlac, a messenger, or agent. It is translated "angel"...
14. CHAPTER XIII.The processes of development of a solar system from the diffused elemental matter of space may then be roughly sketched as follows, premising that each stage may have possibly e...
4. CHAPTER III.But is there such an available force? There is one, and only one,--electricity, when properly generated and suitably applied. It is an axiom of electrical science that any fluid...
2. CHAPTER I.In endeavoring to present a new and rational interpretation of the source and mode of solar energy, based upon the established principles of recent science, it becomes necessary...
7. CHAPTER VI.Let us now consider the phenomena of the double stars. These were formerly believed to be single orbs, but the more powerful telescopes of recent years have shown them to consis...
8. CHAPTER VII.What, then, is the probable cause of these terrific conflagrations, as they appear to us? Take an ordinary electric induction machine,--a Holtz or a Wimshurst,--and, if the surr...
6. CHAPTER V.What, then, becomes of the light and heat flashed forth with eternal energy from the fiery waves of the sun's incandescent atmosphere? Professor Ball ("In the High Heavens") say...
11. CHAPTER X.When we come to consider the nebulæ, and endeavor to learn what part electricity has to play in the phenomena presented by these singular objects, we must recollect, in order to...
9. CHAPTER VIII.From the extracts thus cited we may form a fairly clear idea of the phenomena which comets present, and these facts represent about all that we know of these mysterious objects....
12. CHAPTER XI.When we reach the irresolvable nebulæ, we unquestionably have approached the creative period of solar systems and in many cases of whole galaxies. These are multifarious in form...
13. CHAPTER XII.While the nebular theory of Laplace is now the generally accepted scientific hypothesis of the formation of our solar system and of all solar systems, it finds its strongest sup...
10. CHAPTER IX.Now, curiously enough, we have in constant use in our laboratories a little instrument called the electroscope, in which we have manifested very clearly a repulsive force exceed...
1. CHAPTER XV.Figs. 1 to 8. Types from nature, illustrating development of a solar system from the attenuated matter of space Frontispiece. Fig. 9. A typical sun-spot 57 Fig. 10. Structure of...
15. CHAPTER XIV.Thus, as we have seen, through countless future ages will the sun, with his incandescent envelope of hydrogen, and the planets, with their life-sustaining atmospheres of oxygen,...
18. CHAPTER XV.We have passed before us the different orders of celestial phenomena; we have called down the denizens of the starry skies and placed them on the witness stand, and we have inte...
16. xxviii. 17, "The Lord hath sent the kingdom out of thine hand;