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Meteorology Considered in Its Connexion With Astronomy, Climate and the Geographical Distribution of Animals and Plants
Meteorology Considered in Its Connexion With Astronomy Climate and the Geographical Distribution of Animals and Plants Author:Patrick Murphy General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1836 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAP. VI. Magnetic Attraction esteemed the Moteur or Principle in which the elliptical Movement of the Heavenly Bodies has its Source, and ElecTrical Agency to be that of their Movement of Rotation. Having thus, as I hope, finally solved this so long disputed problem, and assigned its true place in astronomy and physics to the primary force or principle of universal gravitation; it will appear, that though the local bond of union between the elements which compose the sun and planets, and immediately derived from the active forces of nature in their atmospheres; gravity, as already noticed, can have nothing to do with the principle of their movement. And that, as the repulsive action between the sun and planets which grows out of the reversed action of gravity between these bodies on the lines of distance by which they are separated, if not controlled by an opposite, would have the effect of removing them continually farther, one from the other, so as fipally to dissolve all connection between them. Assuming that the same local division and distribution of magnetic action exists equally in the sun and remainder of the planets as in the earth, in extending from their equators to opposite poles. In the principle of attraction which, as is known, exists between magnetic poles of opposite names, as to its true source, we are enabled to discover the controlling force opposed by nature to the repulsive action of these bodies on each other alluded to. And further, that, together with thus making magnetic attraction the bond of union between the sun and planets, nature has likewise engrafted on it, as I hope...« less