New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-09

rosa 70 1902 He was able 70 cook seaA by placing II
boz covered with glass and that inside another boz
with glass cover. and 10 boil eggs hard. He made
experiments and found IN the st place that about one
third Of the suns light and heat were cut OF at midday
by the air, and taking that into account, ana
making the requisite calculation for large
extent Of surface he found that the quantity of
one square mile would be SUFFICIENT 10 melt In single
hour 2oo tons Of lee Well, now that is merely Ine
quantity received by square mile OF the earth sni
facevhat the earth presents to the sun. How SINAI
she Is compared with him, aud what small surface sue
presents, and how little Of the suns heat does sue o
ceive Even regarding for q moment the sun as q
spotted disk $1,000 600 Of square miles In extent even
then how small is the quantity OF the sun nent a1
heat that this earth actually captures You have ony 70
consider how small the sun looks ~ Tue b n
consider how small earth would look Deslds NM
with this small diameter compared VIII ms Oh one
inch TO three yards, and You can see how s
which can be readily made it is found that only the
26o part or less than that proportion o. 'e sun
heat ia captured by the earth; and all the piancts
together receive only one oth part OF the suns
heat There another mystery the study OF ASTRONOMY
presents Only one part In 227c000O0 parts appears Ia
be applied 10 any useful purpose, and the rest seems
wasted II is nei for 70 judge OF the operations OF
to Snd Confirmation Of the saying of tho Atheist
that sounds so strange TO u.s. that Nature ID nbns
being continually sent forth and only the 22 oOocth
part received. Only imagine merchant who spent
large sums of money, and VINO employed only one cent
usefuly for every 100000 OF his income And that is
what the sun appears 10 be continually dong. Inc
actual emission OF solar hight and heat corresponds 10
what would have been obtained II on every square yard
Of the suns surface six tons OF coal were consumed
heat would be gwen 0y burning l6CO 0OcVOooJ
OF tons: and this earth which we live. III
its whole surface glowing with tho same heat as
the sun would give out in every second the came
amount az heat that would be gwen by burning up
100000 of coal One million million tons OF
coal every second OF time "a GLOBE only as large as
earth while the SUM- the great center OF our system,
gives out every second an amount OF neat tha would
be given out by burning ll60o 0D0 10000 or tons tof
coal or about eight times the whole supply OF coal sup
posed to exis In this earth In every second the sun
the whole supply OF that coal which we LOOK AT
inexhaustible, but which we are consuming at such
rate that in 5000 years hence there De but
little doubt the coal Viii De exhausted upon ibe earth
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gIIE SUNS SPOTS.
Now. we have TO consider what The telescope ana
other instruments OF research tell about that globe
We have seen Its size, its mass what wonderful
amount of hight and heat 1t gives and now we have TO
consider what the telescope tells u.s. need not so over
the OF researches by which the aspect OF the
has been studicd but will only remark that N Gahleo
the others VINO studied the sun-t they only knew
what know, how much We owe TO the sun, they
would with bundredfod degree Of interest have stud
led that wonderful orb. At the beginning OF their re-
search they found the suns surface marked from time
70 time with large spots, which we will now show you.