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Excerpt from Lecture-Notes on Physics
It exists throughout all known space as a highly elastic and rare medium called ether (proof of this given in optics), and in this medium circulate dense bodies of spheroid forms, separated from each other by distances which are immense when compared with the Size of these bodies; such are the planets and asteroids of celestial space, and the earth on which we live.
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