The principles of light and color: including among other things the harmonic laws of the universe, the etherio-atomic philosophy of force, chromo chemistry, chromo therapeutics, and the general philosophy of the fine forces, together with numerous discoveries and practical applications .. . egated into a more beautiful world. 4. We may see then why it is that the moon always presentsthe same side to the earth. One side of its mass and its interiormolten part being blown away, it must have a heavier and alighter side. The earths gravitation must hold its round andheavier side unchangably toward
The principles of light and color: including among other things the harmonic laws of the universe, the etherio-atomic philosophy of force, chromo chemistry, chromo therapeutics, and the general philosophy of the fine forces, together with numerous discoveries and practical applications .. . egated into a more beautiful world. 4. We may see then why it is that the moon always presentsthe same side to the earth. One side of its mass and its interiormolten part being blown away, it must have a heavier and alighter side. The earths gravitation must hold its round andheavier side unchangably toward itself otherwise why does itnot revolve on its axis and show its various sides, as is done inall other known worlds ? I have not seen any attempt on the THE MOON. 201 part of astronomers to explain this phenomenon, but the aboveexplanation, including its method of destruction, seems to me en-tirely rational. If the igneous central portion had been ejectedinto space, gravitation would at once draw the oceans into thiscentre and all things having become frigid, no clouds, or water,or atmosphere could ever more make their appearance upon thesurface of the disabled world, which condition is found to beverified by astronomers. 5. Fig. 158 gives a condensed view of the. full moon as seen. Fitr i?8. The Full moon. Fig 159. The Crescent. through a telescope and fig. 159, of the crescent and what iscalled the earth-shine which is the dimmer portion that appearson account of the light reflected from the earth. Before the firstquarter, when the half moon appears, this earth shine generallybecomes invisible until the moon becomes small again. 6. Eclipses of the Sun and Moon and Phases of the Moon maybe illustrated by fig. 160. In the first place notice that theerreater size of the sun causes the earth and moon to throwdiminishing shadows in the form of a cone some distance intospace, the darker central portion of which constitutes what iscalled the umbra, the lighter portion the penumbra.
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