Mobile register and journal., 1845-04-21
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 The same philosophers, pretending that matter has an innate principle of attraction in each of its psr- cles, pretend also that by calculation they are able 10 come 10 the true knowledge the density and power of attraction of each of e planets, and that their density is in the increase proportion of their distance from the sun, placing the lighiest in the most remote part from the sun, and ihe most dense near to il. Even Jupiter is consdered by them as composed ofa lighter material than Mercury, and that ihe hulk of Jupiter is about fifteen thousand times greater than the bulk of Mercury. IT il was as they say if each particle of matter has an innate at tractng power, thSt power would be in proportion the number of those particles; all bodies, half o heT particles attract tine other half; that aitrac- tive ioce meets in the centre, which renders the Ire the denser part of that bsly, consequently the more particles there in body, the greater the density.
 Jupiter having fifteen thousand times more parti- cles than Mercury, should he fifteen thousand tunes 'nole compact than Mercury, hut on the contrary, lighter that Mercury.
 do not understand by what calculation they come to such conclusion; hut will endeavor to show the true state of things.
 They moreover say. that there exists in space be- y0nd the planet Uranus some cloudy substance which they consider the first state of planets (which be- leve is true) Next is Uranus, which has the form oi all other planets, but formed of the ghte.t rial Then we have Saturn, and SO on 10 Mercury, which is the most dense Oi all.
  sic around the sun, the diameter of which decreas ing, so that after ages they wind up their way in spiral line to the This is the general belief and also mine but f this is true, if ,he planets in n'i the diferen, states they have to pass, where is that state of neondescsnes Where is that state of boiling laval where is the place where the frs, coa, oi crust Is laid onf where that uf general migration in which it is Preiended planets have 10 pass! There is not A sign of such ever being the case. Here we come 10 the real truth. the grava- ton only apparent and produced bv the revolution oi the sun, Progressing matter through space towards the centre of each planet by the power of its rays, and the resistance O the material irradcation tex caused by the stars surrounding system, SO that those rays being compac, when the sun. have pnwer in proportion to ther numbers, conse- quently losing Il by degrees as they divide them selves m greater space, and at last arrive to the circumference of our system, which is of such an i'm mense dimension. that their weakness must be ex- treme, but neverihe less enough power to retain the sun and stars in their respective places; this is the reason that the planets, the most remote from the sun, appear as a nubuous matter there, not having sufficient pressure around themselves to make them compact; this explains perfectly, the cause of their being more compact in approaching the sun, for Mer- cury being where the suns rays are more compact, must have greater pressure around tself than any oiher u is obvious that body teniing toward the sun, by it's own weight and revolving on its own axis. must become more and more compact and shorten its distance from the sun, d after great lapse of tune will arrive at 1t. If there were any probable signs that planets ori- ginale in lle sun. in winding iher way through space coong and condensing their surface. there would be probability of the theory of central fire. This must he obvious to any one, that nm right in both Of my theories. The first that gravita tion is due repulson. and the other that the pan- cts begin as cloudy substance, in which the most dense part is in the centre, increasing in density they approach the sun the lighter substance remain ing always in the external parts. can he in state of ebution. A. G.