Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 172
was caused by the drive or repulsion of the luminousbeam. It is argued that this repulsion by light is probably one ofthe causes why the sun seems 10 drive away the tail of a comet,whose particles being extremely minute have much surface andlittle bulk, so that they are more repelled by the light… … A beam of light deflects dust. 134 SIZE its own gravitation is 1,600 times greater than that which is thereexerted by the sun. The law that a given shape when enlarged increases much moreapidly in volume than in surface has, in our brief survey, boundtogether a wide diversity of facts in…
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