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THE 
AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, &c. 
Art. l—General Remarks on the Temperature of the Terrestrial 
Globe and the Planetary Spaces; by Baron Fourrer.* 
Translated from the French, by Mr. Esexezer Burcess, of Amherst College. 
Tue question of terrestrial temperature, one of the most remark- 
able and difficult in natural philosophy, involves very different ele- 
ments which require to be considered in a general light. I have 
thought it would be useful to have condensed in a single essay, all 
the results of this theory. The analytical details here admitted, are 
found in works which I have already published. I was specially 
desirous of presenting to philosophers, in a concise table, a complete 
view of the phenomena and the mathematical relations which exist 
between them. 
The heat of the earth is derived from three sources, which should 
— be distinctly mentioned. 
. The earth is heated by the solar mee the iron distribution 
of woah causes diversities of climate. : 
* TO PROFESSOR SILLIMAN. 
Dear Sir—Although it is several years since they were published in France, I 
have never met with a translation of any of Baron Fourier’s able papers on the 
temperature of the globe, nor seen in the English language a fall view of the im- 
portant principles which they develop. I have, therefore, requested Mr. Ebene- 
zer Burgess, a tutor in Amherst College, to make a translation from the 27th No. 
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respond bia fed own, I hope you may find a place for it, even at this late day, in 
your Journ With much resp 
Amherst ene July 4th, 1836. ee Hircucock, 
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