Light Science for Leisure Hours a Series of Familiar Esays On Scientific Subjec
Light Science for Leisure Hours a Series of Familiar Esays On Scientific Subjec
Richard a Richard Anthony Proctor
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' He must be aware that there are not half a dozen students of science in this country who have expressed definite opinions on the subject after a thorough and independent inquiry into the evidence. Amongst those who main- tain the wind theory there is not one, so far as I know, with whom Dr. Carpenter is in agreement. Mr. Laughton disputes the very principle of Dr. Carpenter's reasoning, holdiog that the change of temperature from equator to poles proceeds too slowly mile for mile to produce t...he effects which Dr. Carpenter indicates. Mr. Croll, in like manner, has expressed his complete dissent from Dr. Carpenter's reasoning. So also has Mr. Findlay. I believe these gentlemen to be mistaken, and I conceive that I have been able to put my finger on the precise point where their respective lines of reasoning fail. But, if Dr. Carpenter is to take general consent as an argument, and to maintain that I am wrong because he knows of no one who agrees with me, I may as well point out that he is entering into a very questionable 258 LIGHT SCIENCE FOR LEISURE HOURS.
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