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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1907. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... V OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ON THE TEMPERATURE, SECULAR COOLING AND CONTRACTION OF THE EARTH, AND ON THE THEORY OF EARTHQUAKES HELD BY THE ANCIENTS. By T. J. J. SEE, A.M., Lt.m., Scm. (missou.), A.M., Ph.d. (bkrol.), Professor Of Mathematics, U. S. Navy, In Charge Of The Naval Observatory, Mare Island, California. {Read April 20, 1907.) I. On The Temperature And Internal State Of The Earth. § 1. General Considerations. It is well known that Fourier devoted almost the whole of his life to those famous mathematical investigations by which he established the laws for the propagation of heat in solid bodies. His first memoir was communicated to the Institut de France in 1807, but with several subsequent memoirs was allowed to rest in the Archives till 1822, when all were at length published in the celebrated "Theorie Analytique de la Chaleur." Prior to this, however, in the Bulletin des Sciences par la Societe Philomathique de Paris, avril, 1820, pp. 58-70, there appeared an "Extrait d'un Memoire sur le Refroidissement seculaire du Globe Terrestre," which contains the earliest detailed statement of the secular cooling of the earth (cf. "Oeuvres de Fourier," edited by Darboux, Tome II. , pp. 271-288). R/printed from Proceedings American Philosophical Society, Vol. xlvi., 190J. In 1827 Fourier submitted to the Academy of Sciences an additional memoir on the "Temperatures of the Terrestrial Globe and of the Planetary Spaces" (cf. "Oeuvres de Fourier," Tome II., p. 97). He justly remarks that the question of terrestrial temperature is one of the most important and one of the most difficult in the whole range of natural philosophy. This view is still held by physicists to-day, and therefore any inquiry which will materially advance our knowledge of the subject may be wel...
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