An appendix to my new system of fire and planetary life : shewing that the sun and moon are inhabited, and that they enjoy the same temperament as our earth / by Robert Harrington.
- Harrington, Robert, 1751-1837.
- Date:
- 1798
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An appendix to my new system of fire and planetary life : shewing that the sun and moon are inhabited, and that they enjoy the same temperament as our earth / by Robert Harrington. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![1 *5 ] fire by evaporation, and makes the fouth pole be furrounded with fo much more ice than the north a body when it is attracted by another body, viz. a planet and its fatellite. When attraction pre- dominates, it will turn to the body which attracts it, being drawn towards it. This, as we have ob- ferved, cannot be done at the equator, as there repulhon predominates. But it may be done at the poles, as there they poflefs very little fire compara- tively, and in confequence very little repulhon, and gravitation mult predominate; which gravitation muft have the effect of making the fatellite turn to the planet, not from it. This is actually the cafe with two of the fatellites of the Georgium Sidus; for, inftead of moving in the fame plane with the relt of the heavenly bodies, they move in a different one j and that, inftead of moving from weft to eaft, they move from eaft to weft, turning to the planet, not from it; which is moft indifputably by being principally under the gravitating, and not the repulhve principle. And another very fmgular circumftance attends thefe fatellites—they difappear at a certain dillance from the planet.— According to my fyftem they poffefs lefs fire than the other planetary bodies, matter and gravitation being the predominating powers, and not fire and repulfiqn ; in confequence, when they come near their illuminated planet, the Georgium Sidus, their weaker light will be overpowered. 1 have not given all the minutiae of the variations of the motions of the moon ; but, from the general pole. Now let us confider what will be the motion of principles](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28405043_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
