on Light, and tbe Wafte of Matter in the Sun, Geo 192 - 
P HAAS on mA pe; the Waffe of. Matter in E 
F.A and fixt Stars, occafioned by the conflant Efflux of Light 
from them : with a Conjecture, propofed by Way of Query, 
and Juggefling « a Mean, by which their Jfeveral Syftems might 
be preferved from the Diforder and final Ruin, to which they. 
_feem liable by that Waffe of . Matter, and by i the Law of Gra- 
uitation. ‘ 
By JAMES BOWDOIN, Efquire, 
Prefident of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
AVING ina preceding memoir laid before the Acade- 
my the obíervations, that occurred on the fubje& of Dr. 
Franklin's hypothefis relative to light, I fhall now confider his 
objections to the received: do&rine concerning it.. 
The objections will appear by the following paragraph tien 
from one of his letters on philofophical fubje&s. 1T 
nis I muft own, fays the Doctor,* {iam muchsin the dock 
about light.’ Iam not fatisfied with the doctrine,that fuppofes 
particles of matter called light, continually. driven off from the 
fun's furface, with a fwiftnefs fo prodigious + ‘Mutt, not the 
fmalleft particle conceivable have, with füc h a motion, a force 
tH that of a twenty-four pounder, difcharged from a can- 
"xx T! nón? 
-E "Bee QE and Papers on Pilofopkical Sijes: De 264. edie’ shee | 
2 Fue as ‘thefe memoirs were going: to the prefs, an ingenious | géntleman of the 
American Academy, favoured me with the Philofophical Tranfa&ions for 17 
(the 6oth vol.) in which the Rey. Dr. Hor/loy, msa paper entitled, « eim dn 
in the Newtonian Theory of Light, confidered and removed," quotes. this Pallage 
gaa Dr. Frasklw c letters j and Wf a. difcuffes the quein: d gre 
dif fabjed sane REREN that paper, mpon principles different M E thafe 
ati in tbis memoir, there will not be found any fimilitude between them. 
