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AMONG the views expressed are that “Light is the sensation produced through the medium of the organ of vision by the action of multitudinous effluvia, exhaled by the sublimation of the incandescent substances which exist in the sun's photosphere, and which are borne into space by an eruptive force, emanating from the contracting body of the sun.” After a review of a number of scientific and unscientific statements, the book concludes with the question “As to the ‘mode of motion’ theory of heat, or the ‘wave’ theory of both light and heat, of electricity and ether, is it any more than a fiction of the imagination?” Persons who would reply in the negative will be impressed by the arguments of Mr. James Walker.
Views on Some of the Phenomena of Nature.
By James Walker. Part II. Pp. vi + 187. (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., Ltd.)
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Views on Some of the Phenomena of Nature. Nature 60, 197 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060197b0
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