The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-06-10
The Suns Light and Heat.


Mr.. John Wise the aoronaut, who has
acquired some fame as \ meteorological
gives in his adhesion to the theory which
has recently been broacbed. that the sun
supplies light and heat by the combus.
tion Of meteoric bodies which como with
in the sphere of its attraction and fall up
on its surface. In lettor to the Scien-
ttfc american he gives more lucid ar
gument in favor of this strange theory
than we have before seen. He say..
This philosophy of the world holding
its own is very good, so far az our ago
ability and scrutiny is endowned but
this philosophy is even letter sustained
when applied to the great universe Even
there the scrutiny Of man discovers
change. The Equinoxes overleap their
annual periods Stars have appeared in
vacant places, aud stars have disappear
ed. Star. have bnrned up--evaporated.
philosophers tell us A zodiacal ring is
developing itself around our earth, As
teroids are coming 70 light yearly. Com
cts appear that we know nothing of and
comets that have been seen have left us
and never yet returned Meteor show
srs have appeared as irregular as
thunder showers and indeed, we might
amplify upon change in 'he universe in
the same ratio that We behold change mp
on sur planet.
Thus we may inductiveIv reason that
change is going on in the universe Of mat
ter connected with orr solar system aud
therefrom deducs chat the sun i. globe
Of liquid fire, kept mp by matter supplied
from the i n organized masses that float
through space in the condition of nebul-
Gus vapor, meteors. and comets n bn
lous vapor may be acting The part in 'he
atmosphere of the universe that water
and air are acting in the atmosphere of
our earth
Magnetic changes in the solar universe
may bring about me'eoric showers, and
metcoric showers may produce comets.
When these concretions are formed like
rain.drops in the eartb's atmo phere, they
will obey that active law Of grsvitation
which draicS them to- or towards an or
ganic uucleous. Actively gravitating ii
e. moving matter must move in curves
hypsrbolic, paraboic. or elliptic. Coles.
tial bodies never partake of purely cir
cular motion nor of purely spherical
form.
From the Sc known laws of matter we
can nationally deduce hypothesis that
will account for the suns ability to light
and heat her family of orbs without suf
fsring sensible diminution ofits powers.
The sun cxhales on its orhs heat and light
This heat and light viviGcs, frurtifies, de.
composes, aud brings in it, train chaneol
change changel Aud So with its whole
family of orbi These changes on the
srbs oxhale from them magnetic clouds
which are dissi pated into the atmosphere
ot tie solar universe, whore they are
wrought by magnetic storms into show,
ers of meteNrs which are raiued into the
sun, as rain drops tall upon our earth
These meteor showers NAV at times pass
so near planet as that some portion of
them curve into its atmosphere, where,
from their impact under high veloctes
they are ignited. A magnetic storm Of
meteors may be so intense as to consol
idate its partially condescnded matter in
10 cometic mass, sufficient to give said
mass momentum, aud hence gravita
ting property sufficient to give it organic
system, so as to endow it with a quasi.
planetary habitude Comets may be for
msd of so rare a body as not to be suffi
cieDt in momentum to overcome the suns
attraction. and thus, instead Of an clip
tical or parolio sweep youpd the sun, fall
into it as fuol When the comet is dense
enough to hold apsce out of the sun in
bis sweep round it, it may 90 to some
other sun. and perform its curve around
that and SO M. until its acc-eion. con
solidatiou, and momentum bring it to
that condition and order as to dt it for
an organic orb in the famil, # a solar
system, there to take the routlins OF
change which the Creator has so impres.
sively STAMPED ou all meter"