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States. These can best be read in the origi-
nal papers to various journals, references to
which may be found in the footnotes of Miss
Clerke’s History of Astronomy during the
Nineteenth Century . The same can be said
of Bredichin’s hypothesis of comets’ tails,
Arrhenius’s book on the applications of the
theory of light repulsion, the speculations
on radium, the origin of the sun’s heat and
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