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ACCORDING to Lieut. Armit “all the various phenomena which occur in Nature are accounted for by one theory forming one law, and the force which governs and regulates everything, even to imparting perpetual motion to the world, is Electricity” (p. 122). When the reader is informed of the author's opinion that the east wind is formed of compressed vapour or steam (p. 57), that lightning and thunder are caused by the Arctic current descending to fill any vacuum that may suddenly be found in the warm currents below it, the “grating” of the currents against each other causing friction and lightning, and the sudden shock of the impenetrable masses the thunder (p. 68); and that, by an attentive study of his theory, it will in future “be as easy to foretell and evade a storm and keep in a fair wind, as it is to drive over good roads and evade the bad ones, when you know the country you are driving through” (p. 126), he will understand that the book may be consulted out of curiosity, or for its psychological interest, but not for instruction in what concerns atmospherical phenomena and the laws which govern them.
The Wind in his Circuits, with the Explanation of the Origin and Cause of Circular Storms and Equinoctial Gales.
By LieutR. H. Armit. (London: J. D. Potter, 1870.)
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The Wind in his Circuits, with the Explanation of the Origin and Cause of Circular Storms and Equinoctial Gales . Nature 3, 467 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003467a0
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