Show BIRTH OF SOLAR SYSTEMS the nebulous theory of or laplace e the earth flattened by meteors S i sin san S in prof richard A proctor began last night hi in concert hall alaide rov my of music a series of illustrated scientific lec lecturer tore a the audience js the largest prof proctor has yet ct hadin had in thia this city 4 the subject su dbert for the evening avis was th The e bir Birth i of solar systems in olden times people saw the arched heaven the tile jun lun moon and starr re and arld this was the tile supposed whole un universe iveree the earth is 9 hut but a point compare I 1 to the sun su j which is 13 in turn but a point when compared to the tile space over which it presides each star is a sun lord ross telescope e would shiow ane thotis thousand aud million puns and these repeat repent our solar by stern stein one thousand million lion times the stars or orbs arbs ft inch which arc are so email small or faint that hey they can hardly be seen are the center of systems like the worlds sun there arc are beyond our suns suits system systems much greater myriads of such systems being evolved the solar which wy wo belong as one of one thousand ru millions illious of systems was balzen lak cn for consideration and lasplaces La places theory in regard bolta alta origin civell I 1 hapl laplace ice 66 thought aught that at first the material of thia this sy system tern was a inai s of rotating ir it moved round in a great circle rings of which broke up into fragments on coale coalescing cing formed a planet ring after aug t 0 breaking up formed 1 until at f length the sun un a MUS inas times grater in bulk than all the ilni H put together was left in the centaur of the eastern eastell tern the tile earth is is growing nil all the lime time this may ba be proved any cl clear ear ev evening diug by the falling stars C coming jo the varther var earth thor or a t hower of them which are in the form of fine dust duct when they reach alie t le eartha earths nir lace or a meteor may he ile seen forcing its itts way way through the air to the earth in south america there in is a meteor lying on the surf surface itee of the earth which weighs 15 ton tows are chec things chips that have been floating muce ince the formation of the system theae rhese matters buist have come to te earth in it much greater quantities centuries centar ago Z t thin vin now and ll 11 id is now e efti ti mated that four f mir hundred of these bodies bod iea lea tench 1 ch the arth earth each ach 0 year ia fr ivym I 1 tim an he lie made prof proctor concludes tit out a part of the pre arment bent b dy of earth was in in this way fine pictures were thrown on a screen representing the nebulous theory 1 and also ithe the theory of ine meteoric ceoric aagre aggregation stion of mete meteors oris in 1799 was shown and also the fragment of a great great meteoric mass kept in the paris Muse museum util lie ile aid said the star depths were once our homes F from rom their source came our substance food even tha brains with which we think these thoughts the sun and the other heavenly bodies he lie said were all composed of terrestrial elements such us tits are familiar to the denizens of this world wor ia the manner in which the presence of iron sodium and other metals in the sun is demonstrated were explained more satisfactorily than ever before to the audience jupiter saturn a and rid uranus have a family of worlds world around them the sun run moves at a rate of twenty miles to the second and a planet near it would gather material with difficulty and if to far away away the materials would be 00 oo scarce seare jupiter situated about midway gathered most of the fragments and consequently attained its great size uranus and aud saturn further off gathered les less ami as its a consequence have iea bulk the earth is the only planet having a companion compan iun raveling traveling world the moon boon odthe of the athe r are properly called atel lites the asteroids satel ite itel and t the lie earths pur sur face lace he said all t showed the world to be tens or hundreds of millions wil lions of years old A picture was shown of a system of such systems as the solar system in closing he lie said if space is infinite and time EO so long as to be practically eternal how small ia is our life |