The Poison Belt - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Books - - 9798691012693 - January 22, 2021
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Poison Belt

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Book Excerpt: ...d bobtail of insignificant satellites, we float under the same daily conditions towards some unknown end, some squalid catastrophe which will overwhelm us at the ultimate confines of space, where we are swept over an etheric Niagara or dashed upon some unthinkable Labrador. I see no room here for the shallow and ignorant optimism of your correspondent, Mr. James Wilson MacPhail, but many reasons why we should watch with a very close and interested attention every indication of change in those cosmic surroundings upon which our own ultimate fate may depend.""Man, he'd have made a grand meenister," said McArdle. "It just booms like an organ. Let's get doun to what it is that's troubling him."The general blurring and shifting of Fraunhofer's lines of the spectrum point, in my opinion, to a widespread cosmic change of a subtle and singular character. Light from a planet is the reflected light of the sun. Light from a star is a self-produced light. But the spectra both from planets and stars have, in...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 22, 2021
ISBN13 9798691012693
Pages 80
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 4 mm   ·   117 g
Language English  

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