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On the Insolation of a Sun of Sensible Magnitude

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

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Many theories have been advanced to account for a presumed uniformity in the temperature of the earth in past ages, and one of the most recent is that advanced by Sir John Murray in the Summary Volumes of the Challenger Report. A careful study of the distribution of marine fauna showed the existence of remarkably similar organic forms in the Arctic and Antarctic regions which were entirely unknown in intermediate waters. The existence, also, of ancient corals in Polar seas points to a high Polar temperature at some remote period of the earth's history. These facts combined lead us to consider it probable that in some past age the earth's air temperature was high and uniform.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1897