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 .. . ds into afirm unity of mass, and rolls up fluids into little spheres, each ofwhich has its center of infinite points. Gravitation, however,binds all atoms and all masses of atoms into one family, firstchiseling out all worlds into beautiful globular shapes and thentying them together. By its means the sun b
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 .. . ds into afirm unity of mass, and rolls up fluids into little spheres, each ofwhich has its center of infinite points. Gravitation, however,binds all atoms and all masses of atoms into one family, firstchiseling out all worlds into beautiful globular shapes and thentying them together. By its means the sun becomes a center of unity for 137 planets, moonsand asteroids,* as well as forcomets, which are so numer-ous as to be estimated bymillions. The following re-mark by Guillemin will showthat the sun, mere point asit is compared with the uni-verse, has after all a vastreach into space : Whereasthe radius of Neptunes or-bit is equal to 30 times themean distance from the sunFig. 29. The Solar Family. to the earth, the aphelion of the comet of 1844, whose period is 100,000 years, is lost in extraplanetary space at a distance 4000 times as great. * This includes the two moons of Mars lately discovered; but new asteroids arebeing looked up yearly, and the above estimate will prove too UNITY. 13. The star Alcyone, in the Pleiades, is supposed by manyastronomers to be the mightier sun which forms the center ofunity for our own sun and a great number of other solar systems. 14. To show that the universe follows this law of unity inthe large as well as small, I will give a few star clusters, some-times called nebulae, as seen by Sir John Herschel. I wouldfirst remark that our own solar system is situated in the vastcluster called the Milky Way, which William Herschel, aided byhis telescope, estimates as composed of 18,000,000 stars. IfAlcyone is the center around which move our own and manyother solar systems, it is reasonable to suppose that the Milky Fg- 31-
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