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OUTLINES

OF

A MECHANICAL THEORY OF STORMS,

CONTAINING

THE TRUE LAW OF LUNAR INFLUENCE,

WITH

PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE NAVIGATOR, TO ENABLE
HIM APPROXIMATELY TO CALCULATE THE COMING
CHANGES OF THE WIND AND WEATHER,
FOR ANY GIVEN DAY, AND FOR
ANY PART OF THE OCEAN.

BY T. BASSNETT.

He de mesotes en pasin asphalestera

NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON & COMPANY,
346 & 348 BROADWAY,
AND 16 LITTLE BRITAIN, LONDON.
1854.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by
T. BASSNETT,
In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York.

CONTENTS.

SECTION FIRST.

Present State of the Science of Meteorology--Primordial Condition of the
Solar System--Theory of Gravitation the great key of Nature--Bessell's
doubts of its perfect adequacy--the Newtonian Vacuum: its
difficulties--Nature of the element called Ether--The Medium of Space
and the Electric Fluid--Ponderosity of Matter--Dynamical law of
Equilibrium--Specific heat and its relation to space--A Plenum not
opposed to Gravitation--The medium of space in motion--Formation of
Vortices--A new principle developed--Elements of the problem--Hutton's
theory of the production of rain--Indications of change and the
cause--Action of the Ethereal Current--Physical process of Atmospheric
Derangement--Redfield's theory of Storms: its difficulties--All storms
are of brief duration and limited extent. 13

SECTION SECOND.

Mechanical action of the Moon--The Moon's mass--Axis of the Terral