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J. Croll— Professor Newcomb’s “Rejoinder.” 345 
we rere . n 
and Time’ will know that I adopted —239° as the temperature 
oy to eccentricity. My opinion all along has been that the 
Mperature of space is little above absolute zero. . 
the omg argument against the conclusion that space can have 
a 8) temperature assigned to it by Pouillet and Herschel, 
eng ae Photometry shows that the combined light from 
€ stars visible in the most powerful telescope is not a 
ture as high as —239°, is just the very argument advanced b 
d 
—fember 9, 1865, and afterwards reproduced in ‘Climate and 
Time,’ at page 39, from which I quote the following :— 
“ 
i. We is at least 493° below the melt- 
= Point of ice. This i 
know that absolute zero 
inthe : is 222° below that of space. Conse- 
tens y, if the heat derived from the stars is able to maintain a 
east: ture of —2 or 222° of absolute temperature, then 
Ba ye as much heat is derived from the stars as from sun. 
light ? So, why do stars give so much heat and so very little 
a at I e radiation from the stars could maintain a ther- 
ee ; 
‘Evaporation and Kceceutricity as Co-factors in Glacial Periods,” Geological 
; Eva 
: Magazine for November, 1841 
