A New Story of the Stars (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A New Story of the StarsOn the earth we have the molecules in all three states - tight locked in the granite rock and the steel girder bridge, sliding freely over each other in the water of the great oceans, and free to move in the atmosphere. T'were impossible to imagine the vast number of atoms that make up our globe, yet astronomically, the earth is a particle of cosmic dust, moving forward in space at about twenty miles a second, gaining speed when near the sun, losing it as the distance increases. It moves in a giant ellipse, of which the sun occupies one of the foci. Were gravitation annihilated, or were the attraction of the sun to cease, the earth would move straight forward in space the solar heat getting less and less until a persistent Arctic temperature would be reached, and life as we now know it would be impossible. But the earth is always falling towards the sun, and this fall and its own onward motion make it move in an ellipse, sometimes hurrying towards the sun, then getting up such a speed by its fall that it is carried by its motion away from the sun again, just.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.