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The sun not what it appears to be a new cosmology, 1896

1 v. (27 leaves) : 28 cm · Essay presenting Rogers's theories concerning the nature of the sun and the earth's atmosphere. Rogers denies that the sun is a "fire-ball", arguing instead that atmospheric electricity, created through the energy of celestial motion, is responsible for producing heat and light · Mimeographed copy of typescript text, with holograph corrections and underlining made in ink · Leaves have text on recto side only · Caption title · "An essay read before the Chautauqua Society of History and Natural Sciences, July 24th, 1896, by Henry Raymond Rogers, M.D., Dunkirk, N.Y." --Leaf 1 · Illustrations mounted on text pages; photographic portrait of the author is mounted on front free endpaper · Submitted for the [1897?] Hodgkins Award at the Smithsonian Institution · The second section of the essay (5 leaves at end of volume) is entitled: The nebular hypothesis, a stigma upon science · Holograph ms. letter (2 p.) from Rogers to S.P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, dated 1896 Dec. 10, has been bound in at front of volume

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