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Recent Criticism and Contrary Theories.—The rules referred to in last article are only empirical and are derived from no theory. Mechanics ought to take them in hand and explain them; but it has not been able to do so, for the circulatory movements of both liquids and gases are as yet a closed letter to that science. They are to-day in the same position as were Kepler's laws before the theory of attraction. Why ellipses? said theorists at the beginnings the seventeenth century. And why put the sun in the common focus of all these ellipses? Are there not also other curves followed by these planets in their course around the sun? But once connected with the principle of universal gravitation, these laws, so neglected by contemporaries,became “the immortal laws of Kepler.”
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The Laws of Storms * . Nature 12, 457–459 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012457b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/012457b0