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Earth sharing Uranus's present maximum secular eccentricity (.077965). 

 Earth, Jupiter, Uranus, and Sun, were connected by the following equa 

 tion: — Modulus = 2 tt X the square of Jupiter's mean radius vector X the 

 time of revolution at secular perihelion (.922035) of a mean-proportionate 

 radius between Earth and Sun (l : |/214.86)^ -f- (square of Earth's radius 

 X 1 year). This value of modulus (474250) exceeds the value found by 

 the ordinary methods (473755), by less than ^ of one per cent. 



11. The secular range of Uranus, between 17.688 and 20.679, subjects all 

 the intra asteroidal planets, together with most of the asteroidal belt, to the 

 influence of its accompanying light-oscillations, so that all the members of 

 our interior system of dense planets may have been partially built up 

 of materials from a meteoric stream, of which the November meteors are 

 the debris. Earth's secular aphelion (1.0677; Cfr. the ratios of % © 

 centre of gravity, 1.0668, and of Jupiter's secular aphelion, 1.0608) was 

 established near the linear centre of gravity of a pendulum, of which the 

 kinetic radius marked the centre of oscillation (j X f X 1.4232 = 1.0674). 

 Veuus's secular perihelion (.6722), is near the centre of spherical gyration 



of Earths secular aphelion (/Tl X 1-0677 =: .6753). 



13. If we take the primitive light-axis (20.128), and suppose it subjected 

 .to repeated oscillations through =b Earth's mean vector-radius, successive 

 nodal bisections give the following approximations : 



13. If the kinetic radius of Mercury's secular perihelion was also the 

 radius of nucleal separation, its secular aphelion (102.438) was near a cor- 



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responding atmospheric radius (1 4232^ x 63.906 = 102.305). 



14. If the luminiferous, or kinetic aether is the permanent representa- 

 tive of the original hypothetical nebula, in which suns and planets are but 

 floating particles, Faraday's "lines of force" may be due to longitudinal 

 and transverse waves, either of various degrees of velocity but uniform 

 frequency, or of various frequency but uniform velocity, or of velocities 

 and frequencies both varying, in accordance with definite harmonic laws. 

 The luminous, thermal, magnetic, gravitating, cohesive, and dissociating 

 impulses,* all have simple harmonic represeniatives in the 26th musical 

 octave, which is the special octave of light-proper; the gravitating impulses 

 have also important harmonics in the 46th, 91st, and 92d octaves. 



♦The "selenium eye" illustrates one of these harmonies. Prof. W. G. Adams, 

 (Proe. Roy. Soc. Jan.6, 1876; P. Mag. April 1876) .says: "the change in the resistance 

 of Selenium is directly as the square root of the illuminating power." This is 

 Inversely as the velocity of nucleal rotation. The deflections in the dark (32) 

 and in the strong sunlight (-170) give the ratio l-i.6'J; the ratio of emanating force 

 at Sun, to that at Earth's orbit being 14.66. 



