THE HEAT OF THE SUN.
Some curious facts in connection with tho temperature of the sun are given in a recent number of a French scientific journal. Newton, one of the first investigators of the problem, tried to deter mine it, and after him all the scientists who have been occupied with calorimetry have followed hia example. All have believed themselves successful, and have formulated their results with great confidence. The following are the results, given in the chronological order of publication, according to the centigrade scale : —Newton, 1,669,300 deg.; Pouillet, 1461 deg.; Zolner, 102,000 deg.; Seechi, 5,344,840 deg.; Ericsson, 2,726,700 deg.; Fizeau, 7500 deg.; Wateraton, 9,000,000 deg.; Spoerer, 27,000 deg,; H. Sainte-Claire Deville, 9500 deg.; Soret, 5,801,846 deg. ; Vicaire, 1398 deg. ; Yiollo, 1500 deg.; Rossetti, 20,000 deg. There probably does not exist in the annals of science a more astonishing contradiction than that revealed in these figures. One is struck in reading on the one hand the names of these masters, and on the other these figures, which vary from 1400 deg. to 9,000,000 deg.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2070, 12 October 1880, Page 3
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176THE HEAT OF THE SUN. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2070, 12 October 1880, Page 3
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