ERRATA. Page 56, twelve lines from the bottom, for "vortex," read "vertex." Page 69, last line for " shifted a point," read "shifted to a point." INTRODUCTION. HAVING for a long time directed my atten tion to the mechanical construction of the Solar System, and having entertained the opinion that a connection existed between the Sun and Planets, as to their distances and motions, which has never been satisfactorily explained, I have endeavoured to develop that connec tion. The first point to which I directed my attention was the diurnal rotation of the Sun and Planets, and seeing that the heavenly bodies constantly turned on their axes, I conIceived that the diurnal rotation of the Sun was the governing principle or measure of the diurnal rotation of all the Planets. B With a view to ascertain this, I found, by calculation, the convex surface of a Planet, and then multiplied it by the number of its rotations in 25 days and 12 hours; that being the period in which the Sun makes a diurnal rotation. Thus, The diameter of the Earth being 7,916 miles, |
