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WILL you permit me to ask Mr. Mattieu Williams how, on his hypothesis, “that the atmosphere is universal, and that each planet attracts to itself an atmosphere in proportion to its mass,” he accounts for the well-known fact that the moon shows no signs of an atmosphere sufficient to produce any indication of refraction during the occultations of a star?
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BROWNING, J. A Universal Atmosphere. Nature 4, 487 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004487c0
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