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218. The separation of the aether into central and 

 peripheric mass has happened according to the laws of 

 light, and thus according to the centroperipheric primary 

 antagonism. As a consequence of this, only one central 

 body can originate in a solar system ; the mass of the 

 periphery can, however, divide into several, and must 

 divide into as many as the light has moments of 

 ration ; of this we shall speak for the first time in treating 



"oTcolours. 



219. The matter of the periphery can be condensed 

 by light into no other form than that of a hollow globe 

 around the sun. The planets are originally concentric 

 hollow globes, in the midst of which the sun is formed. 

 There are several hollow globes, because the light has 

 several points of contraction at certain distances from 

 the sun. 



220. The number of hollow planetary globes is a 

 definite one, and it is not an arbitrary matter how many 

 of them originate. 



221. The matter of such a hollow globe of aether is 

 still, however, rarer by so much than the present planetary 

 mass, as that of our earth would be rarer if it were to 

 form a hollow globe around the sun, about as thick only 

 as from the earth to the moon. 



222. This hollow globe rotates with the sun, because 

 the whole globe of aether, which fills out the space of the 

 subsequent solar system, rotates; therefore everything 

 necessarily tends in one direction. 



223. These hollow planetary globes, on account of the 

 rarity of their mass, their rotation, and the greater tension \\V 

 of light, could not subsist in the equatorial plane of the 

 solar system, but coagulate together in equatorial rings 

 about the centre of the whole system. The planetary 

 foetuses are only solar rings, which rotate with the sun. 



224. If the whole coagulated aether of the solar sys- 

 tem be so small in quantity, that when extended around 

 the sun in a planetary track or course, it still does not 

 become solid ; so also can the orbitar ring not per- 

 sist, but it contracts itself through light, rotation and 



