Solar and Planetary Physics and Motion

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Excerpt from Solar and Planetary Physics and Motion: Preliminary Chapters The economic value of a sure basis of prediction in meteorology is inesti mable. The value to the nation of a reliable forecast of the season, of probable rain supply, of drouths, of extraordinary degrees of heat or cold, weeks or even months in advance of the events, cannot be estimated in money. Weather bureau experts and other scientific men have labored long in search for a periodic law of recurrence of weather conditions. Publica tions by thousands have been issued tabulating results of careful research into past weather conditions. The sun and its constitution is the final physical cause of all conditions which make life sustainable on the earth. The sun has been subjected to every possible form of scrutiny in the endeavor to understand the laws of its being and the causes of its manifest variability. This is another attempt. I am persuaded that the tables given herein summarize a law of periodic solar action which will render prediction of future solar action precise as to time and definite as to intensity. These tables are based entirely upon rigorous calculations of events and facts open to the scrutiny of all. Personal bias and vanity can not sway the results. If the writer is mistaken in this statement then those tables present the most remarkable combination of figures and fiction. Extending over 300 years. To be found in the history of mathematics. So chameleon like are the figured results of planetary action that they simulate the precise form and physical conditions. As to time and intensity. Of solar storm and calm, and they seem to truthqy reflect every well established rule of solar action derived from observations extending over 300 years. Spots come and go on the sun at irregular intervals, no two periods of maxima or minima occur of equal length in succession nor indeed at all. Yet these tables. Derived merely from the motions of the planets and the sun, follow these spot condi tions. Through all their sinuosities. Telling of the waxing and waning of solar activity as if they were derived from close scrutiny of that condition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.