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note the total want of resemblance in the
forms shown on the two. This mode of
research promises to afford many new and
useful data.
The spectroscope has revealed the fact
that, broadly speaking, the sun is composed
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of the same materials as the earth. Angstrom
was the first to map out all of the lines to be
found in the solar spectrum. But Rowland,
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