Abstract
THE author of this short essay is not satisfied with the current ideas as to the maintenance of solar energy, but believes his new views tend to remove much of the difficulty. So far as can be judged by these “preliminary notes,” however, the theory advanced is one which is not likely to convince any one but its author. Interplanetary water vapour and the periodical indulgence of the sun in cometary vapour baths appear to play an important part, the idea being that as a result of their action the radiant forces of the sun are confined within the limits of the solar system. The recurring absorption of the planets by the sun and subsequent disruption into new systems are other features of a theory which has its principal strength in the fact that there are no means of testing its chief teachings. The author's name does not appear on the title-page, but the preface is signed by J. H. Brown.
The Maintenance of Solar Energy.
By F.R.A.S. Pp. 20. (London: The Southern Publishing Co., Ltd., 1899.)
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The Maintenance of Solar Energy. Nature 60, 615 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060615a0
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