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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tiplied by itself, or squared. aPlane of Ecliptic?Same as plane of earth's orbit, extended out any distance. u Vufcan?Sext planet to t he sun; its existence is doubtful. (15,, 15, 16, M,. 22)? The several planets in their order from the sun. THEORY IV. CONSTRUCTION OF THE VOID. That the construction1?so to speak?of space, or the natural lay and varying density of the original, atomic principle filling the void bounds, is that of Ethereal ' shells, ' or transparent.1 crystalline ' Oceans;' each far out and surrounding a solid sphere at the 2)oint of its vast, vacuitom2 center; and perpetually raining down to that sphere in the manner of a complementary vortex. Thus, the outer ' ocean ' through its vortex is emptying itself into its sphere. This theory, though assuming somewhat the same title, and being derivatively similar to the ancient ' Ptolemaic5 heavens, ' is yet fundamentally different; perhaps, as that embryo6?astronomical system of the more antique Philosopher was superseded by the Copernican theory.1 The present theory assumes that a celestial vorte'x tends to widen latitudinally,8 as well (though at a lesser rate) as it does longitudinally,6 as it diverges outward from the center, until it finally and most remotely partakes of the real, speroidal16 form. As the center is receded from, the rotary motion of the crystal whirlpool grows weaker and weaker, until at last, the centrifugal force nearly, if not entirely ceases, when the vortex relaxes and widens out even to the celestial vertical of its axial poles. From thence, the spheroidal form retains throughout the exterior, rare, invisible, hollow ocean of space. It will be perceived, that the great, external zone, or ocean of ether is, itself the source of the vortex, and, therefore, must contract a...