AN EXTRAORDINARY PREDICTION.

Dunstan Times, Issue 928, 30 January 1880, Page 3

AN EXTRAORDINARY PREDICTION.

A number of astronomers engaged in observing he sail during the last eclipse agree that, irs condition anpears to have rcc-iifly undergone a great change, and Professor 1 ockver, inclines to the opinion that the changes must have a very serious result. Observers were surprised to find that the burning hydrogen, which was formerly present in the corona, has largely disappeared. The spectroscope proves this beyond any possibility ~f a doubt. It had been previously known that for the last four years the spots, which were formerly so frequent on tiie sun, have hoen fewer, and the close connection between the sun’s spots and terrestrial magnetism has been once more demonstrated by the marked decrease of magnetic activity during the same period. The disappearance of sun-

si ots ami the disappearance of hydrogen from the corona means that solar activity and solar heat have decreas'd. Now the decrease of a. Jar heat means in its early staye an inccase of he it on the earth, for cases thrown out hy th ■ son when in a state of aetivi \ and which act as a shiol-l to ’protect the earth, disappear as the hj 'at

deerens s. According to drs view the sin is k-ng precisely th« cotr-e which mast end in 'he burning up of the earrh at :i comparatively car'y perio 1. But the heavens are said hy some well-informed persons to indicate, on muon more prnximate evidence, that we are rapidly approaching what will ho one of those most perilous and maliflc periods of the earth's history. Since the commencement of the Christian ora the perihelia of the four great p’anets of the solar system—Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, and Neptun"—hive not been coincidental But this is about to occur, and in the language of Knapp, who has traced the history of the greatest epidemics that ever afflicted the human race to the perihelia of these planets, there wi.l soon he times of groat pestilence. The view is tnat when one or more of the largo planets is nearest to the sun the temperalure and condition of our atmosphere are so disturbed as to cause injurious vicissitudes, terrific rains, prolonged droughts, etc., resulting in the destruction of crops, and pestilence among human beings and domestic animals. Dr Knapp has collected a mass of statistical data, all going to show that perihelion data have always been marked by unusual mortality, and that sickness and death have invariably corresponded with the planets in perihelion years at the same time. The revolution of Jupiter round the run is accomplished in a little less than twelve years, of Saturn in a little less than thirty years, of Uranus in about eighty-four years. IE it he true, therefore, that the p Tthelia of thesoplanets occasion atmospheric conditions unfavourable to life, pestilential periods should occur once in twelve years ; and sti 1 more widespread epidemics at longer intervals, in tracing the history of epidemics for more than 2,000 years, Dr Knapp finds the fact in all cases to validate the theory. Thus in the sixteenth centuries, three of these planets were coincident in perihelion, and those were the most pestilential times of the Christian era. But soon after 1830, for the first time in 2.000 years, all four of those planets will he at their nearest approach to the sun nr perihelion. So that for a few years, say from ISSO to ISSd, the vitality of every living thing will be put to a severe and trying ordeal Some persons say that they see in the signs of the times evidence of great disasters at hand in the immediate future. Extremes of heat and cold, the prevalence of flood and disasters, the general failure of the potato crop, the widespread chill fever among human beings, and the equal presence of the epizootic among animats, are mentioned as among the premonitions of the rapidlv-anproaching perihelion. That the conjoint perihelion of all the large planets of solar system —one of which (Jupiter) is 1.00 times as large as the earth —must disturb our atmosphere and temperature very considerably, is probable ; that disturbance must be injurious to health and life is certain ; and that these periods have heretofore been pestilential is a matter of record. — : Medical Review.’

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