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20-128-1 



= a .. 



*« 



=/3 .. 



i(/8+i) 



= 7 •• 



4 (y-i) 



*(* + !) 



= 8 .. 

 = e .. 



9-128 



Uranus ... 



19-184 



9-564 



Saturn ... 



9-538 



5-282 



Jupiter ... 



5-203 



2-141 



Asteroids. 





1-571 



Mars .., 



1-524 



13. If the kinetic radius of Mercury's secular perihelion 

 was also the radius of nucleal separation, its secular aphelion 

 (102*438) was near a corresponding atmospheric radius 



(1-4232* x 63-906 = 102-305). 



14. If the luminiferous or kinetic sether is the permanent 

 representative of the original hypothetical nebula, in which 

 suns and planets are but fleeting particles, Faraday's " lines of 

 force " may be due to longitudinal and transverse waves, either 

 of various degrees of velocity but uniform frequency, or of 

 various frequency but uniform velocity, or of velocities and 

 frequencies both varying, in accordance with definite harmonic 

 laws. The luminous, thermal, magnetic, gravitating, cohesive, 

 and dissociating impulses * all have simple harmonic represen- 

 tatives in the 26th musical octave, which is the special octave 

 of light-proper ; the gravitating impulses have also important 

 harmonics in the 46th, 91st, and 92nd octaves. 



15. Jupiter, the chief planet in the supraasteroidal, and 

 Earth, the chief planet in the intraasteroidal belt, are connected 

 by the following proportions. The number of light-oscilla- 

 tions (log =20*699916) which would communicate the greatest 

 gravitating velocity in our system ( s/'Zgr at Sun) : the num- 

 ber (log = 15*822542) in describing Sun's circumference 

 (2irr) : : velocity of revolution at Earth (1-f- V2 14*86) : velo- 

 city of gravitating force at Jupiter (l-f-1051*298 2 ), the units 

 of velocity being taken, respectively, at Sun's surface and at 

 the limit of equilibrium between © 2/. aggregation or dissocia- 

 tion (1-4232 + 1049-875). 



16. The same chief planets are also connected by the pro- 

 portion, Vmodulus (688*3) : light-producing wave at the 

 mean-perihelion centre of- gravity of Sun and Jupiter 

 (7rx 1*0198) : : Earth's mean radius vector : Sun's radius. 

 The value of Earth's radius vector thus found is 214*842, the 

 value which is derived from the observations which I have 

 thought the most accurate being 214*86. 



* The " selenium eye " illustrates oue of these harmonics. Professor 

 W. G. Adams (Proc. Roy. Soc. Jan. 6, 1876 ; Phil. Mag. April 1876) 

 says, "the change in the resistance of selenium is directly as the square 

 root of the illuminating power." This is inversely as the velocity of nu- 

 cleal rotation. Th<, deflections in the dark (32) and in strong sunlight 

 (470) give the ratio 1469, the ratio of emanating force at Sun to that at 

 Earth's orbit being 14-66. 



Phil. Mag. S. 5. Vol. 2. No. 8. July 1876. D 



