... Williams published his very ingenious work entitled The Fuel of the Sun, in which, apparently without any knowledge of what had been written before with regard to an interstellary medium, he attempts to find therein the source of solar heat — the... Fuel of the Sun - Page 5by William Mattieu Williams - 1870 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1871 - 400 pages
...Cain's organ is still traveling somewhere in far-off strata of attenuated air ; and he gives reasons for concluding that the gaseous ocean in which we...atmosphere that fills the whole solidity of space. If we believe the confessions of those portions of atmospheiic matter, which have been subjected to... | |
| 1871 - 632 pages
...Cain's organ is still travelling somewhere in far-off strata of attenuated air; and he gives reasons for concluding that the gaseous ocean in which we...atmosphere that fills the whole solidity of space. If we believe the confessions of those portions of atmospheric matter, which have been subjected to... | |
| 1882 - 550 pages
...find therein the source of solar heat — the "solary fuel " of Newton. To quote his own language, "the gaseous ocean in which we are immersed is but...elements of the universe, and diffuses among them light and heat, and all the other physical and vital forces which heat and light are capable of generating"... | |
| 1882 - 636 pages
...find therein the source of solar heat—the " solary fuel " of Ne%vton. To quote his own language— " The gaseous ocean in which we are immersed is but...elements of the universe, and diffuses among them light and heat, and all the other physical and vital forces which heat and light are capable of generating... | |
| Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1883 - 508 pages
...to find therein the source of solar heat, the "solary fuel" of Newton. To quote his own language, " the gaseous ocean in which we are immersed is but...elements of the universe, and diffuses among them light and heat, and all the other physical and vital forces which heat and light are capable of generating... | |
| Thomas Sterry Hunt - 1886 - 744 pages
...find therein the source of solar heat — the "solary fuel'' of Newton. To quote his own language, "the gaseous ocean in which we are immersed is but...elements of the universe, and diffuses among them light and heat, and all the other physical and vital forces which heat and light are capable of generating."... | |
| James Croll - 1889 - 142 pages
...(Nature, August 29, 1878, p. 475.) Similar views have been advocated by Mr. Mattieu Williams, who says " that the gaseous ocean, in which we are immersed,...forces which heat and light are capable of generating." (Fuel of the Sun, p. 5.) In 1854 Sir William Thomson suggested the idea that the luminiferous ether... | |
| 1871 - 632 pages
...Cain's organ is still travelling somewhere in far-off strata of attenuated air; and he gives reasons for concluding that the gaseous ocean in which we...atmosphere that fills the whole solidity of space. If we believe the confessions of those portions of atmospheric matter, which have been subjected to... | |
| Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1883 - 484 pages
...to find therein the source of solar heat, the "solary fuel" of Newton. To quote his own language, " the gaseous ocean in which we are immersed is but...elements of the universe, and diffuses among them light and heat, and all the other physical and vital forces which heat and light 'are capable of generating"... | |
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