THE EARTH AND ITS SATELLITE.
The above was the subject of Mr. Severn’s lecture last evening, and the audience was more numerous than on the previous evening. As usual, the subject was very well and the experiments explanatory of the beautiful pendulum experiment of Foucault’s, whereby the rotation of the earth is rendered visible, were put before the audience in capital style. The theory of the orbital motion, as well as the daily rotation of the earth, were illustrated and explained ; day and night, the method by means of which earthquake shocks could be measured both as to force aud direction, the cause of terrestrial magnetism, the aerial and magnetic poles, were all illustrated and explained. Then followed the subject of the moon, and we are very sorry th it comparatively speaking only a few persons saw these really magnificent photographs—the one of the first quarter being of great beauty. Altogether the lecture was most successful. This evening the subject will be galvanism, with a large number of experiments on the electric light, the coil, telegraph, &c.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5020, 26 April 1877, Page 2
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177THE EARTH AND ITS SATELLITE. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5020, 26 April 1877, Page 2
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