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The NEW YORK HERALD in its issue of January 3, 1897, devoted nearly a whole page to a notice 

 •of the undermentioned work -which it described as being "A REMARKABLE SCIENTIFIC MEMORIAL." 

 It also stated that '■'Nothing more revolutionary than Dr. Emmens' memorial has been advanced in the name of 

 science since the day when Sir Isaac Newton presented to the Royal Society his doctrine of universal gravitation." 



The Argentaurum Papers, 



No. 1. 



Some Remarks concerning Gravitation, 



ADDRESSED TO 



THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, THE ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES, THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



AND ALL OTHER LEARNED BODIES, 



BY 



STEPHEN H. EMMENS. 



Member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers ; Member of the American Cliemieal Society ; Memhre Fon- 



dateur of the Societe Internationale des Eltctriciens ; Sometime Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of 



Great Britain and Ireland ; Member of the United States Naval Institute ; Member 



of the Military Service Institution of the United States ; Etc. 



CONTENTS : 



The Newtonian Doctrine. The Defect of Newton's Proof respecting the Centre of Force of a Spherical 

 Shell. The Newtonian Demonstration respecting the Attraction exerted by Spheres upon External Bodies. 

 An Inquiry as to the Reason of the Defect in the Newtonian Doctrine of Attracting Spheres having remained 

 undiscovered until now. The Newtonian Doctrine of Internal Attractions. The Doctrine of Gravitating 

 Centres as distinguished from Centres of Gravity. The Calculus of Gravitating Centres. The Gravitating 

 Centre of a solid, homogeneous Sphere with relation to external bodies. The case of a Spheroid. The Pre- 

 cession of the Equinoxes. The Density of the Earth. The Internal Attractive Force of a Spherical Shell. 

 The Internal Attractive Force of a Solid Sphere. The status of a Solid Sphere with regard to Internal Pres- 

 sure. The Centrifugal Theory of Cosmioal Bodies. The Variation of Density as regards the Earth's Crust. 

 The Significance of Earthquakes. The Temperature of the Earth. The Source of Terrestrial Heat. The 

 Source of Solar Heat. Saturn and Jupiter. Tlie Volcanic Character and Quiescent Status of the Moon. The 

 Obliquity of the Ecliptic. Elevation, Subsidence and Glacial Epochs. The Cooling and Shrinking of the 

 Earth's Crust. The Arch Theory of the Earth's Crust. The Cause of Ocean-Beds and Mountains. Terrestrial 

 Magnetism and Electricity. The Presence of Gold in the Ocean. The Verification of the Centrifugal Theory. 

 Universal Gravitation. E pur si muove. The Error of the Dyne. The Variation of Products. The Infinite 

 Concomitant of Newtonian Particles. The self-lifting Power of the Newtonian Particles. How two equally- 

 heavy Newtonian Particles, taken togethe., weigh less than the sum of their separate Weights. The self- 

 contradictory character of the Newtonian Law. The superior limits of Newtonian Gravitation. The Corre- 

 lation of Space and Energy. The outline of a system of Universal Physics. 



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