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he formation of the Earth; an attraction acting in a direction nearly per- pendicular to the half-planet’s first-forming equator and its parallels. Thus the material, at its first rolling up from the form of a ring or shell, would be inclined to rotate in the plane of HW, but being drawn outward by… … All this might begin antecedently to the process of rending which introduced the formation of half-planets, or perhaps go on during that very process; in which 1 During the revolution of a whole ring or shell around the sun, every part of the outside would be presented once in its turn to the…
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