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rel="cc:attributionURL" href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3728192" content="London, England :Taylor &amp; Francis,1798-c1977."></span><span property="dc:publisher" content="London, England :Taylor &amp; Francis,1798-c1977.">London, England :Taylor &amp; Francis,1798-c1977.</span></div></div><div class="mdpMetaDataRow"><div class="mdpMetaDataRegionHead">Description聽</div><div class="mdpMetaText">v. :ill. ;25 cm.</div></div><div class="mdpMetaDataRow"><div class="mdpMetaDataRegionHead">Rights聽</div><div class="mdpMetaText"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd-google">Public Domain, Google-digitized. </a></div></div><div class="mdpMetaDataRow"><div class="mdpMetaDataRegionHead">Permanent URL聽</div><div class="mdpMetaText"><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3728192">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3728192</a></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="ControlContentContainer"><div class="mdpControlContainer"><div id="mdpContentsList"><p></p><h2><a 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page number 492</span></a></li><li class="mdpFeatureListItem"><a href="/cgi/ssd?id=uc1.b3728192;seq=559;num=507">Section 43<span> on page number 507</span></a></li><li class="mdpFeatureListItem"><a href="/cgi/ssd?id=uc1.b3728192;seq=617;num=565">Index<span> on page number 565</span></a></li><li class="mdpFeatureListItem"><a href="/cgi/ssd?id=uc1.b3728192;seq=624;num=">Section 44</a></li></ul></div></div><div id="mdpContentContainer"><a name="SkipToBookText" id="SkipToBookText"></a><h2 id="seq540">Section 42 - Page 492</h2><div id="mdpPage"><p class="Text">492 Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. to flow out as is done with sulphurous acid. Science thus pos- sesses in this new refrigerator powerful means of investigation. The question, as a whole, has no technical difficulty to overcome; its realization from the present is only a question of the material means at the disposal of the experimenter.-Comptes Rendus, April 21, 1884. ON ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY AND THE SUN'S ACTION AT A DISTANCE. BY W. HOLTZ. The author refers to the papers on this subject by W. Siemens in which no mention is made of him, although he had in 1877 already expressed the opinion that the electricity of storms is per- haps to be attributed to an electrical action of the sun at a distance. Incited by Siemens's memoir-to further thought on the matter, he is led to the following view, which materially differs from that of Siemens. The sun, as Z枚llner showed, could only act at a distance in case one of the electricities developed in it were dissipated in space. Assuming that the latter is the negative electricity, both the earth and the moon will acquire it. The earth is thereby exposed to the action of positive electricity at a distance from the sun, and the negative action from the moon. In consequence of the former, the surface of the earth must be constantly negatively electrified during the day and positively electrified on the night side. The action of the moon in reference to the side turned towards it and away from it would be similar, not opposite; so that at the time of the new moon there would be an enfeeblement, and at the time of full moon a strengthening of the inductive action. Aqueous vapour, as it forms, takes with it the electricity of the earth, and this is led to the upper regions of the air. If any horizontal layer is electrified even to the smallest extent, the atmosphere in which countless such layers are heaped up may show appreciable pheno- mena of tension. The greater violence of the storms in equatoreal regions is due to the fact that the inductive action is here of course the strongest, and also the evaporation most abundant. The auror忙 boreales are to be explained by the fact that it is preferably the poles at which opposite electricities meet. The difficulty of establishing this hypothesis by experimental observation is increased by the fact that all the causes above men- tioned act simultaneously, as well as by the fact that, along with this, secondary inductive actions of the already electrical masses of air come into play. Only in specially constructed buildings and by the aid of special apparatus would it be possible in the course of time to decide this question. The author proposes therefore to arrange electrical observatories (that is, special institutions for ob- serving the electricity of storms), which at the same time would lead to a solution of the important astronomical question of the sun's electrical action at a distance.鈥擝eibl盲tter der Physik, vol. viii. p. 148. </p><p><a class="navigation" href="/cgi/ssd?id=uc1.b3728192;page=ssd;view=plaintext;seq=539;num=491"> Previous Page </a><br /><a class="navigation" href="/cgi/ssd?id=uc1.b3728192;page=ssd;view=plaintext;seq=541;num=493"> Next Page </a><br /> Return to <a href="#top">top</a>. </p></div></div></div></div><script type="text/javascript">var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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