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Title: The Mosaic account of creation, the miracle of to-day, or, New witnesses to the oneness of Genesis and science : to which are added an inquiry as to the cause and epoch of the present inclination of the earth's axis, and an essay upon cosmology
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Warring, Charles Bartlett, 1825-1907
Subjects: Bible and science Cosmology Religion and science Creation
Publisher: New York : A. S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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ttracted somuch less attention than the retrograde motionsof the Satellites of Uranus and Neptune, theyappear equally extraordinary. It certainly is re-markable that the rings of Saturn, and the largenumber of seven Satellites, scarcely vary from oneplane, while the eighth abruptly takes a course ofits own. Our Theory does not fail here, but shows eventhis to be a development of law, and one of theechoes of that first impulse on the inert Cosmicmass. We will suppose the Saturnian planetoid in-clined something more than 28°, in the manneralready shown, Prop. 6, and as illustrated by Fig.6; that, while in this position, the planetoid,by virtue of its axial rotation, became oblate,and at length separated from its equatorial belt,which, as shown in case of the larger bodies, wasgathered into a sphere, the embryo moon. Thismust have revolved, at first, in the equatorialplane of the future planet, the system at that timebeing represented rudely by the accompanyingdiagram. 12 266 COSMOLOGY.
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FlQtTRE 7. AA is the plane of the equator of the helioid, PP beingits axis. S is the future planet Saturn, at that time extend-ing far beyond the present orbit of its seventh Satellite.MM, the plane of the planetoids equator, and also of theorbit of the oldest Satellite. Suppose an nplieaval to occur at O, on thelarger body. It is evident, first, that the helioiditself, according to La Granges Theorem, will notaffect the mean inclination of MM. Second, thatthe upheaved mass O will draw M * nearer toAA, but when the Satellite has passed around to M,i. e. after a semi-revolution, it will be drawn away * It must be borne in mind that La Granges Theoremowes its existence to the invariable character of the attrac-tive influences affecting the mass, but has no applicabilityto forces of a temporary nature. If O, Fig. 7, had been sim-ply a belt, or even a permanent upheaval, eventually itsinfluence on the position of M would be counterbalanced,and the mean inclination of the latter would rema

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