The orbs around us : a series of familiar essays on the moon and planets, meteors and comets, the sun and coloured pairs of suns (1902)
Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 · London : Longmans, Green · leaf 323
es reaching to a height of 160,000 miles. x 2 303 THE ORBS AROUND US. gested most forcibly the idea of an explosion underthe great prominence, acting mainly upwards, butalso in all directions outwards, and then, after aninterval, followed by a corresponding inrush ; and itseems far from impossible… … THE SAME A FEW MINUTES LATER. solar outburst has been given because the event re-quires to be thoroughly understood in its general rela-tions, in order that inferences from details may havetheir full weight. But the point which mainly concernsus in the above account is the actual observed…
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