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and afterwards solidified. He noticed that
the outside would have a greater velocity,
and be less attracted to the planet, than
the inner parts, and that equilibrium would
be impossible; so he supposed it to have
solidified into a number of concentric rings,
the exterior ones having the least velocity.
Clerk Maxwell, in the Adams prize es-
say, gave a physico-mathematical demon-
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