The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1870-10-21
The Sun.

The following interesting facts cor
cerning the sun are condensed from tn
recently published work of Amede
Guillemiu ..'
The sun at the zenith (and 81 mil
lion miles distance from us) gives a
much light to any object as $4,000 can
dies three uad half feet from that oh
jet.
The ] ght Of the sun is about Is time
as intense as that of Drummond light
and the most dazzling electric light eve
obtained was - times weaker than th'
suns rays. The latter is 100000 times
stronger than that of 4 candle.
The suu's light at or near the zenith
( with a clear sky. is about 1000 times
greater than when the sun issetling
200 times greater than when Que de
gree high. and eight times as great as
when five degrees high.
DR.. Wo!IaStvn calculated the light OF
the sun to be at least twenty thousand
million tunes greater than that OF Sir
ius or the dog star.
The light of the sun is SOO,00O
times greater than that of the moon.
The suns light at the planet Mer'
curry is 1000 times greater than the
planet Neptune.
The whole amount of the heating
power of the solar rays which fall on
he earth surface, would melt stra.
tum Of ice C vering this sur ace one
luudr, d feet thick. Yet the cath re.
ceivcs less than thousand millionth
prrt of the entire heat thrown out by
the sun inth space ..
The entire heating power o. the sun
is great enough 10 mcll asolid cylinder
of ice forty five miI"sin diameter, aud
constantly dartel into the sun with a
vcIocly Of light, Or 10000 in il Sc
cou .
All mechanical agencies of the
Whole wnrld-thc power held by our
C al fields, winds, running rivers. fleets,
armies, cannnri>-.-arc less thau one
.wo thousand milliontll part of the ca-
l"ric a.cncy of the sun.
The m,-t accurate Investigations and
the laics, discoveries show the mcan
distance Of the sun fom rhe earth to
be about 81 N ili,us niles further from
II. in summer than in winter. 1t is
about / million miles nearer than was
f"rm"rly supposed. ..
The surface uf The sun i"-ronnd
nu nbcrs, is ab ut $3.50 UO0 G0H,0
spuar. m,l's, although ali this surface
is >In,e seventy tlmcs brighter than
the Drummo ID light Think of rs
being removed so far off. like the fixed
>'a:saS 10 only BIC me Il twink Ing polt',
VIC may judge family of the distance
vf th. stars! The sulid contents IF the
sun arc 323,000,00O, 900. 200, 900 cubic
mics. .....
All the planets toy tber, if fused ini"
one globe, would still leave tic sun
600 times larger
Tie weight of the sun has been
asccrtaincd by comparing it, attraction
to that of other bodies, aud is 323.OCO
times greater than the weight OF the
earth. It's real weight is 2, l54, ,lO6,5SO,
O00, 100000, 100000 tons!
A man weighing 200 lbs wou!d
weigh on the suns surface, 54,0O lbs.
On Venus, he would weigh lSG lbs.
on Mercury, lO4 lbs. ; and on Jupiter,
400.
If the earth rcvolved on its axis II
times faster than i. actually does, cen
tritugal force would destroy all weight.
On the sun, it would require revolu-
ton on its axis 1873 times faster to
produce the came result.
Herschrl found with his great tele.
scope that many OF the stars which
make up the milky way. ju ging from
their size, were twcnty.thrce hundred
times as far H. the nearest fixed stars;
but beyond these still more remote
and blrnd"d light came, showing the
milky. way t" b. unfathomable. Light,
f,ing 10000 miles second, must
have been 10000 years coming from
those remote stars.
The ancents knew that the sun was
large, from being seen alike from re
mote plac, s. Auaxagoras thought it
was hrgcr than Pcloponnesus-about
enough to cover the State of Ohio
Herachitue believed that every star was
IA world in the depths of space, sur
rounded, like ours, by an earth and
planets. Keller and Copcrnicus, two
thousand years later, adopted the same
theory. .-..
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