Father Seochi has published a very interesting paper on the source of t>he sun's heat. He considers the sun to be a globe, the heat of whioh reaches an unknown million of degrees. As to the origin of the heat, it may be the result of gravitation which has united the elements of which the central point of the solar eystem has been made up, and of course its temperature at the beginning must have bt*en very much greater that it is now, for the sun is certainly cooling down. Though the loss of heat is exceedingly great we don't notice it, because it is being lost slowly, and its loss is probably compensated for in a great part by chemical actions going on in the interior of the solar mass, wnich Padrg Secchi thinks a mass of strongly compressed and highly condensed nebulous matter.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 822, 15 September 1870, Page 3
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