Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Luminiferous Aether
In 1838 M. Pouillet found that the heat energy transmitted from the sun to the earth would, if none were absorbed by our atmosphere, raise grammes of water 1° 0. In one minute on each square centimeter of the earth normally exposed to the rays of the sun.'
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