Manual of Useful Information: Embracing More Than 100,000 Facts, Figures and Fancies, Drawn from Every Land and Language, and Carefully Classified for the Ready Reference of Teachers, Students and the Family Circle
Manual of Useful Information: Embracing More Than 100,000 Facts, Figures and Fancies, Drawn from Every Land and Language, and Carefully Classified for the Ready Reference of Teachers, Students and the Family Circle
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...they are to the central orb. Certain points are assumed in this hypothesis to explain the distribution of matter in our solar system. It is assumed that in the throwing off of great masses from the central disk, immense quantities of minute particles were also thrown, which continued to revolve, in the same plane with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...they are to the central orb. Certain points are assumed in this hypothesis to explain the distribution of matter in our solar system. It is assumed that in the throwing off of great masses from the central disk, immense quantities of minute particles were also thrown, which continued to revolve, in the same plane with the large mass, around the center body. By slow degrees these minute atoms, by the law of gravitation, were aggregated into the mass nearest to them. These subordinate aggregations would form with most difficulty nearest the large central mass, because of the superior attractive force of the latter, wherefore the interior planets--Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars--are smaller than the two great orbs in the zone beyond them. These two enormous planets, Jupiter and Saturn, occupy the space where conditions are most favorable to subordinate aggregations, but, beyond them, the gravity of aggregating material becomes reduced, and so the planets found in the outer zone, Uranus and Neptune, are smaller than the planets of the middle zone. AEROLITES. B.C. 654, a shower of stone fell on the Alban Mount Livy.) B.C. 467, a great stone fell at Egospotami, on the Hellespont Parian Chronicle). Pliny says it was about the size of a wagon. A.D. 1492, November 7, a ponderous stone, weighing 250 pounds, fell from the sky near the town of Ensisheim, in Upper Alsace. A part of it is still preserved in the parish church. The Emperor Maximilian witnessed the fall of this meteor, and had the stone placed in the church to prove that "God insisted on a crusade against the Turks." A.D. 1510, there was a great fall of meteors in Lombardy, some sixty pounds in weight, and some as much as 120 pounds. They were of a rusty color. A.D. 1627, November 27, a stone wei...
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