New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-13

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Z" TO sImiIsy stfcrRst0Hs.
Here are scme passsses fen pr. W;nssw's
boob, which contain the substance Of the theory At
trihgied to Pruf Peirce:
TIE material structure Of tie et-:h = 81 ,esdhSy
dense; buswe must, nevertheless, e,hc'ude ma the
ply scsI changes y L. resahiEg from ne Gc'SH 81 ne
solar frys must De similar 10 and as te,srmna'e,
:hcugh roc visible 10 the eye, ga those observed I'D
NEE rare and translucent spheres.
Al the present tine the whole North OF Europe
and Greenland, and the Continent OF South America
are slowly rising above he sea.
TIL. popderous uprising and subsidence of whole
hemsphe.cs OF the sold Garth cannot be accounted ior
BY the ordinary operation OF volcanic causes. Inc
agency is deeper and more pervading. II operates
pore steadily, firmly. powerfully and universally;
How p,odcious must be the forces requisite TO lit
whole continents so slovly and steadily
Nothing short Of the action Of stupendor'
radial forces can produce such gigantic geo Eco
motion Of The interior hnids which alone can create
ard sustain these slow and wa, revolutions OF the sur
face must be corrected with and controlled oy the
supreme forces which chain the earth TO ne ;nl.
body. What other agency csn produce them Wn:
but an sgency like this could have produced hat won
derful chain OK American elevations extending from
the arctic 10 the antartc circle How
central and radiaiing then must be the universe ca use
Of molecular motion in the planetary masses when me
results are so uniform throughout the system Such
must be e1erted By Tie gredt central co"To-
ing force, and sh0t force Is e,qt0;o1aed an me s"n
The gist of the discovery attributed to Professor
Perce is that he lines OF upheaval of the coltlnents
are corrected " it'll the expansion aud shrinking OF
the planet as it recedes from approaches the
But four years ago DR.. Winslow, on page l22 OF his
book, lays down as physical law;
THAT planets contract in volume as they approach
the sun, in deet proportion to their mass and dis
lance until they reach their perhela where they are
smallest and that they increase in volune in like pro-
portion, as they recede from the sun, until they reach
ieir aphcia where their dimensions are the greatest
Prof PIERCE was furnished with copy OF DIR.
Wnslow's work in 1853, and was present at the
meeting Of the American Association for the Ad-
yanccme1t of Science at Albany, last year, when
DIR. Winslow read long and elaborate paper in sup.
port of his theory, that 1.-The Sun is the cause OF
earthquakes, volcanoes and the uphesyal OF cont
"nents and islands" That paper to be sure, for
some reason or Other, does not appt IN the pub
Ished proceedings of the Association; bat it was
read reves heess, and its title alone is enOugh to
TO establish Dr. Winslow's claim to the discovery.
Prof Peircs is now at Montreal attending the
meeting of the American Association, and it will
doubtless appear that be does net himself clam the
discovery which the newspapers attribute to him.
He has probably only ampi6ed or developed some
points o. DE- Wnslow theory. OLIVER.