Heat of the Sun.
Lecturing in St. Louis recently on the sun, Professor Samuel P. Langley said that if a column of ice having a diameter at its base of forty-five miles, and extending to the moon, were erected on one of our Western prairies, and all the heat of the sun were concentrated suddenly upon it, it would melt and become paper in a single second.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1806, 2 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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67Heat of the Sun. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1806, 2 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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