Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 169
lsthan common air ; hydrogen gas is continually being emitted bythe great laboratory of nature, and ascends to the upper regions,here, when released from pressure it may expand to at least thedistance, (and beyond it), where meteors occur. Sir John Les-lie thus accounts for the lambent glow of the… … in the finer climates and near the vernal equinox, and has oftenbeen ascribed to the extension of a supposed luminous atmos- ZODIACAL LIGHT. 167 phere about the sun. Laplace seems to have shown satisfactorilythat such an atmosphere, far from extending to the earth, wouldnot reach to even the orbit…
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