Garland Globe | 1909-08-07 | Page 6 | Interesting to Astronomers

Interesting to Astronomers. "Men like Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Ptolemy, Aristotle, Arngo have all endeavored en-deavored to solvo the problem, and I think I may say that tho wolght of evidence points to nn atmospheric solution so-lution that the stars twinkle bocauso of tho various temperatures and densities densi-ties of the aerial layers through which their light passes. Thereforo, according to tho state of the atmosphere atmos-phere and tho altitude of tho star, broadly speaking, so should tho twinkling twink-ling Increase or diminish." F. U. A S., in London T. P.'s Weekly.