Contribution to Solar Physics: A Popular Account of Inquiries Into the Physical Constitution of the Sun, With Special Reference to Recent ... and the French Academy of Sciences, With Not

Excerpt from Contribution to Solar Physics: A Popular Account of Inquiries Into the Physical Constitution of the Sun, With Special Reference to Recent Spectroscopic Researches; Communications to the Royal Society of London, and the French Academy of Sciences, With Notes

The present volume has grown out of an intention I formed about a year ago, to publish the Papers I had communicated to the Royal Society, dealing with the new facts which a new method of inquiry had revealed to us. I formed this resolution because, doubtless owing to their being scattered among the publications not easily procurable of a learned body, these Papers were evidently unread by some who were actually engaged, as well as by many who were.

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