Excerpt from The Sun and the Phenomena of Its AtmosphereThe following pages contain the substance of a lecture delivered at New Haven last January before the Yale Scientific Club. In its preparation for the press however considerable alteration and addition has been necessary, as the original delivery was mainly extemporaneous, and interspersed with numerous experimental illustrations, which cannot be reproduced in the printed form.It is of course impossible to include within such limits anything like a complete statement of our present knowledge concerning the sun: for this, one must have recourse to such works as Proc tor's Sun or Secchi's Le Soleil. The new German edition of the latter book, revised and edited by Dr. Schellen, is especially to be commended as a most complete and admirable exhibition of the present state of Solar Science, and it is greatly to be hoped that it may soon appear in an English dress.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.