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Excerpt from The American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. 32 Art. I. - General Remarks on the Temperature of the Terrestrial Globe and the Planetary Spaces; by Baron Fourier. Translated from the French, by Mr. Edenezer Burgess, of Amherst College. The question of terrestrial temperature, one of the most remarkable and difficult in natural philosophy, involves very different elements which require to be considered in a general light. I have thought it would be useful to have condensed in a single essay, all the results of this theory. The analytical details here admitted, are found in works which I have already published.1 was specially desirous of presenting to philosophers, in a concise table, a complete view of the phenomena and the mathematical relations which exist between them. The heat of the earth is derived from three sources, which should first be distinctly mentioned. 1. The earth is heated by the solar rays; the unequal distribution of which causes diversities of climate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.