Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920 · London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 109
re ofthe overlying mass; but there are strong reasons forbelieving that the central portions are made up of muchG 82 ASTRONOMY, denser bodies, such as metals and their metallic com-pounds, than are common at the surface. 196. It was prior to the solidification of its crust, andwhile the surface was… … ^S- J—Explanation of the Spheroidal form of the Earth. Ilg. 13, and make it revolve very rapidly, we shall seethat that part of the hoop furthest from the fixed points,and in which the motion is most rapid, bulges out as theEarth does at the equator. 197. The form of the Earth, moreover, is exactly…
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