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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: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Warring, Charles Bartlett, 1825-1907
Subjects: Bible and science Creation Cosmology Religion and science
Publisher: New York, J. W. Schermerhorn & co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ved as to project beyondthe surface, it follows from the laws of motion thatthe centrifugal force generated by this mass, as itrevolved about the axis of the sphere, would notbe neutralized, but would be a free force ; and ithas been said that this, exerted long enough,would give any required inclination to the axis.This force I now propose to examine. Let Fig. 1 represent a liomogeneous sphererevolving freely on its axis AA, in the direction ofthe arrow-head, and let M be a heavy mass, smallin proportion to the sphere, fixed upon and pro-jecting from the surface at a sensible distancefrom the pole. The centrifugal force generated by M willcause it to recede from the pole ; but as the sphererevolves, M moves to the left, and still drawingaway from the pole, there results a movement to-wards N and again at M towards N. In other * It may be true that meteors have more or less to dowith the varying masses of the planets, but this lies outsideof my present inquiry. CAUSE FOR INCREASE. 215
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Figure 1.words, there arises a movement from A on everjside towards the equator, which can only occur byM apparently sliding at each revolution a littlefarther down the great circle PMO until it ar-rives at the equator, when the longest diameter(that passing through M) will be perpendicular tothe axis, and the system again in equilibrium.Of course M, being fixed upon the sphere, causesit to move in the same sense. From this it follow^s that the latitude of Mhas changed, while the axis of the sphere hasremained parallel to itself. If, instead of a mass added to the sphere, aportion had been removed, forming a depression,a precisely similar result would have followed, butin a contrary sense. 216 INCLINATION OF EAKThs AXIS. A mass equal to M, placed at the oppositeextremity of a diameter passing through it, wonlddouble its effect, while an equal depression atthat point, would neutralize it. And in general,if the great circle passing through M be dividedinto quadrants, calling that in whimosaicaccountofc00warr

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