Scientific.
Sixty Million Ybaus Hence. — Prof. Richard A. Proctor says the moon it the most interesting of all thr heavenly bodies. It has been particularly serviceable in the proof it affords of the law of gravitation. It proven, too, what the world has been in remote ages of the past, and what it will be in remote ages to come. Its most significant service to man has been as a measurement of tine. Tho only perceptible effect which the earth has upon the moon's course is t'wt of attraction, by which its route in apace is slightly deviated. From the moon's present condition we may inform ourselves of the course of all planetary life. There is every reason to suppose that our present condition was at one time hers ; that she possessed an atmosphere, water, animal, and vegetable life. That has now passed away. Her surface is a sterile, rocky mass. The atmosphere has gone or nearly so, and the seas are dried up. This same process is going on with our earth, and a similar result will eventually ensue, but by reason of the greater bnlk of our phnct, effects produced in ten millions of years in the moon will require sixty millions with u».
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2167, 29 May 1886, Page 6 (Supplement)
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206Scientific. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2167, 29 May 1886, Page 6 (Supplement)
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