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Birth and Evolution of the Solar System. [February f 
sun, too, affedted by its motion the planetary mass ; there 
was down and up undulation, a process which formed the 
central part of the planet in a revolving evolution cycloid,— 
that is the most descriptive expression, — and gave it besides 
conical elongations, polar axes, points of concentration, 
polar regions. 
I call the solar radius R, the actual one r, R = 68or. 
The planetary distances in r are, r being the natural foot- 
rule which we must apply, r = 96,350 geographical miles 
(fifteen to a degree). 
Mercury ... 83*6 r Jupiter ... hi 7 r Uranus ... 4012 r 
Venus ...156 ,, Saturn ... 2047 ,, Neptune... 6447 ,, 
Earth ...214 ,, A 9050 ,, 
Mars ...326 ,, B 16560 ,, 
The centrifugal force of the planet exceeded attraction 
773 times; it repulsed the solar mass, which is 680 times 
larger. 
= J L r = 7 tw 
680 8*8 K 77 3 ^ 
slightly less than the distance of Mercury. The centrifugal 
force of the sun was 1-77*3 we should conclude ; it repulsed 
the planetary mass, which is 1-680 of the solar mass, — 
77*3 
of the then planetary radii, consequently to 1360 r distance. 
But we have to deal not with a point, but with a bod}' on 
whose dimensions the applied force produces unequal effects, 
— moreover, with a body whose centrifugal force exceeds its 
gravity, which, as it recoils, melts under way, which at the 
same time continually revolves, throws its mass forward and 
backward, and leaves it behind as itself moves off, which 
stretches itself, which with its extension alters the translatory 
and rotary velocity of its strata, which rebounds from the 
sun but at the same time is re-attraCted towards it, which is 
an elastic body from which the sun concentrating recedes, 
as the planet before the sun. Step by step we must go with 
this column of matter, whose axis of rotation measures only 
1-17*6 of its axis of central extension. 
(To be continued.) 
