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Excerpt from Experimental Researches Into the Properties and Motions of Fluids: With Theoretical Deductions Therefrom
In the Second Section, devoted to the discussion of cosmical phenomena in ?uids, I have in some parts of this work followed certain ideas proposed by Lenz, Herschel and Dr. Carpenter. By further introducing principles of m6tions in ?uids that I have dis covered, I am able to propose certain universal systems of motion for ?uids upon the globe; consistent with the distribution of land and water as it exists, and at the same time such as will constantly in?uence this distribution. I have some hope that these researches may aid in the elevation of the sciences of physical geography and meteorology, now sciences of observation, to sciences of principle, to rank at some future period with such exact sciences as astronomy and chemistry, and that the principles proposed may be of some value also to systematic geology. I have no doubt, however, that my propositions will need much future correction to adapt them to local Circumstances, and altogether, I consider my efforts only the commencement of systematic work in this field of research.
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