Excerpt from Speculations Solar Heat, Gravitation, and Sun Spots
The author's task is done, and it only remains for him to apologize to the public for inflicting one more book on a book-ridden world.
The public, however, cannot complain of a surfeit of literature on the subject I have chosen. Probably not one work has been written on the Sun - to us the grandest and most beneficent object in nature - to one million of fiction.
As will be seen from the title, the themes here treated are three apparently disconnected subjects, but if I am correct, they form a closely connected trinity, depending upon a common principle.
The positions advanced in this work may seem bold and, at first glance, revolutionary. But a closer view, I trust, will convince the reader that not a single well settled principle of science has been assailed. Thus: On the subject of solar heat there are not less than five or six different theories advanced by eminent scientists. A new theory cannot, therefore, be considered as conflicting with any settled doctrine on this subject.
In regard to gravitation, the field is still more completely unpreoccupied.
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