The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-12-03
TIGGINs ON THE ECLIPSE
Ho Scnttcrs the Theories OF Modern Az
tronomers to tho -Four Winds.

StODe WlSSlnS, Lus CEbaclsu aSSiv;o
mer, vas interviewed By The Republic rs
porter regarding the recent eclipse o
the moon.
ri have nothing to report" said TIL
professor, "but how strange it is that SO
tronomers still talk about the moon hav
ing 30 atmosphere, ard yet they never
see lunar eclipse without witnessing
proof of its existence. During the tota
submcraion Sunday evening the lunar
disc was clearly visible and of the color
Of smoke. If she possessed ell atmos-
pherc it would have been as invisible as
black cat in dark cellar. Three days
after the new moon we can sse thai
ring of light around hor whole globe
which would ho impossible if sha did not
possess an atmosphere to diffuso the col
or oflight, for the sun can illuminate
only half Of her sphere. The factis, the
moon would be forever invisible did she
not have an atmosphere"
"Have you made your views on this
subject public7 ?"
eyes, hundreds of times. 10 1864 I
published book Of three hundred pages
entitled The Architecture of the Heav-
ems to prove that the sun is not body
of heat which imparts light and
heat to space, but is dark body of cleo
tricity which creates, by electric force,
light and heat in the atmosphere of the
planets. Between the planets there is
neither light nor heat. 1! WAS many
years before the old fogy school Of as
tropomers would renounce the fire theo-
ry' and adopt mine. But while they
have at last admitted that the SUMS pho
tosphere is electric, they still believe
that all the space of the solar system is
illuminated by the gun. Why, if this
were 80 the heavens would be as bright
to us at night as by day. This is why
we cannot see our second moon, because
it has no atmosphere to create light by
friction with the solar rays. In this
same book also demonstrated that the
moon has an atmosphere and now 1
begin to see tEat my labor of thirty years
ago is about to bear fruit, for the Lick
telescope has just revealed snow on the
SUBMITS of the lunar mountains"
"That reminds me that this great tele-
scope has discovered something peculiar
about one of the moons of Jupiter" in
terjected the reporter.
"Yes, that it is double. I am very
doubtful of this. If the hemispheres were
a few thousand miles apart, one might
msintain its position by revolving about
the other, but to remain stationary the
thing is impossible"
"Some of the stars are double are they
not?
eyes, but the parts revolve around
each other. The Lick observers proba-
bly, have the idea of DR.. Olbols, an as-
tronomer of the past century, in their
minds without knowing it. He thought
that large planet must have once re-
volved in the great space between the
orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and that it
burst and formed the four asteroids,
Ceres, Pallas, Vesta and Juno. That
idea, however, was abandoned years
ago, when we came to discover hundreds
Of asteroids or small planets in that re-
gion. Biclas' comet did really burst in
two parts few years ago. An astrono-
NOR was looking at it through telescope
at that moment. The halves gradually
receeded from each other, and now they
are two distinct comets with different Pc
riods ofreroiuliou,
"The diversion wsa caused BY the parts
becoming SO highly electrified, and this
was which caused them to recede after
ward. If such a calamity could happen
planet, could not one planet full upon the
other, and is it not believed even by as.
tronomers If our moon wsa to stop
suddenly in her orbit and run toward the
earth she would never reach her. 1t
would require some weeks 10 fall 10 our
planet, and then We would have travelled
go far that the satellite would fall into
another orbit in trying to reach us. Of
course were such q trial 10 take place our
earth would be stopped OF all anirr.l
life, for the moou's proximity would sab.
merge all our continents. Then the idea
of the earth falling into the sun is hum
bug, and is only originated to scare the
people. Even ii the earth stoppad in
her orbit she would require thirteen
years to fail into the sun. Even were
such an event now tra:<piriHg we would
not notice it; besides tue sun would re-
pei us as it does thc comets, and we would
soon be travelling again in the same old
orbit"
"\Vhat is our munu's distance from tie
EARTH" asked the reporter.
"Our books say, in round numbers,
$40, 600 miles, but it is probably nearer
100000 miles We cannot possibly
guess the distance of any of the heaven.
ly bodies, either from us Or from the
sun"
"You have not predicted any Storms
for some time, Professor Wiggins?"
No; for all the dangerous storms this
gulun1a arc in the eastern hemisphere,
which ACCOUNTS for my silence could
have shaken up the Britiah people this
year, but did not want any more Of tine
old reward"
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