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The Velocity of Light. 
[October, 
sun ; these masses of conducting stuff, water in the air, salt 
in the sea, each in its comparative non-conduCtor, are moving 
wires round the earth, equally rich in iron, &c., o. s. p. 
The earth turns round her axis in 23 hrs. 56' 4*09" = 86,164"; 
86 , i 64''4- 19833 = 4*344". As the mass of the conducted 
vapour lifted out of the salt sea into the dieleCtric air by 
the sun is to the mass of the conducting sea, so is the vibra- 
tory velocity of conduction round the earth through the 
atmosphere to one revolution of the conductor, the sea, — or 
rather the salt in the sea — round the earth with the earth. 
4*344 // — 4*284" = 0*096"reducesthe94i3 kilometres to 9202. 
It is 9413—9202 = 211, and 211 x 9413 = 1^44*63, the centri- 
fugal development through the whole of the atmosphere is a 
variation disregarded in calculations. 
The lifted water, always representing with its descending 
branches the 1 -f 29*78 of the atmosphere, moves within the 
28*78 times greater dieleCtric mass, and when we multiply 
the 9202 kilometres by 28*78, the very faCtor of Maxwell, we 
get for the eleCtro-magnetic unit 264,833,560 metres, the 
process in the sea being the respondent, and the vibration 
through the earth the analogon. 
When we multiply the 28*78 terrestrian mass resisting the 
1 of mass appropriated by the sun by the surface of the 
earth, the magnet-stuff surrounded by the rings of water and 
air, we get, r being 1, 28*78 x 47rr 2 = 361*649 revolutions 
during one revolution round the guiding sun. When we 
divide the 47JT 2 representing the resisting terrestrian surface 
by the percentage of mass actually transported by the sun 
in the resisting terrestrian mass, to the sum of both masses 
4 7T -f (1 -r 29*78), we get 374*215 revolutions. The aCtual 
number of revolutions being 365*25, the first result is 3*607 
revolutions in default, the second 8*966 in excess. 
The revolutions being constant during the year and equal 
amongst themselves, the retardations and accelerations must 
compensate each other, power against time, so as to main- 
tain these twofold uniformities amidst the changes of solar 
distance, and under the influences of other bodies within 
and without the solar system aCting direCtly and indirectly 
through the sun on the ea*rth. The following are the chief 
ones of these differences embracing all others. It is 
retardation to acceleration, — 
3*607 : 8*966 = 1 : 2*49 = 2*5, 
as solar to lunar tidal action ; the moon, more opposing 
than assisting solar tidal aCtion, therefore maintains the 
equilibrium. That this lunar aCtion is turned inductively 
