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 .. . of glowing hy-drogen, which extends for5000 miles in height, andhas been termed theCJiromospJicre, to distin-guish it from the coolerabsorbing atmosphere onthe one hand, and thelight giving photosphereon the other. Duringa total eclipse of the sunvast luminous projectionscalled corona make theirappearance,
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 .. . of glowing hy-drogen, which extends for5000 miles in height, andhas been termed theCJiromospJicre, to distin-guish it from the coolerabsorbing atmosphere onthe one hand, and thelight giving photosphereon the other. Duringa total eclipse of the sunvast luminous projectionscalled corona make theirappearance, as seen infigs. 154. 155. and figures would seemto suggest opposite polar-izations of force on diff-erent sides of the The movement of this luminous hydrogen, when wroughtup into the terrific hurricanes which frequently take place in thesuns fiery atmosphere, is something fearful to think of. Lockyerdiscovered by his spectroscope gales which moved from 40 to120 miles per second, or about 3600 times as swiftly as an earthlyhurricane, while Prof. Young, of Dartmouth College, saw a massof flaming hydrogen move upward over 200,000 miles from thesurface, 100,000 miles of which was traversed in 10 minutes, avelocity about 600 times as great as that of a cannon ball ! And. Fig. 156. The Suns coronal prominences, sketchedduring the eclipse of 1868. THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE. 187 yet some have been so absurd as to suppose the sun to be theabode of certain spiritual intelligences, while others have goneso far as to declare that even human beings dwell there, althoughthe heat and fearful play of forces must be great beyond allconception, or measurement of earthly instruments. 4. The metals that exist in the luminous atmosphere of thesun have been examined by Lockyer, Huggins, Angstrom,Young, etc., by means of the spectroscope, and thus far havebeen found to be 17 in number as follows : 1. Sodium. 2. Calcium. 3. Barium. 4. Magnesium. 5. Iron. 6. Chromium. 7. Nickel. 8. Copper.
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