The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 167
PLATE r. … ASTRONOMY. I49 II. PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CONDITION OF THE SUN. Physical Condition of the Sun. 143. The Sun Composed mainly of Gases. — It is nowgenerally believed that the sun is mainly a ball of gas, orvapor, powerfully condensed at the centre by the weightof the superincumbent mass, but kept from…
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