The Earth (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Earth

With a view to simplify this Very sublime and Very important matter as much as possible, I have first considered what would be the general effect of the sun upon a hemisphere of the earth, if both sun and earth were at perfect rest, situated at the same distance from each other as they are now, and if the sun - beams had precisely thesam ture as they have at present, but that there were no moveable air or water, or any marked differ ence of surface, to modify their act...