Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — The Sun’s Light. [ARTICLE]

The Sun’s Light.

It is now many years since Doctor Johnstone Stoney, F. R. S., published his important paper in which he propounded what seems to be the most rational explanation of sunlight yet afforded, says Sir Robert Ball. Recent observations seem to have substantiated Dr. Stoney’s fundamental doctrine that the glowing clouds of the photosphere, from whence the sun’s radiation is mainly dispensed, are formed of carbon. According to this view those patches of brilliant light exhibited in solar photographs emanate from sooty iucandescent clouds hundreds of miles in length and breadth. It is well known that the flame of an ordinary candle, or of an .ordinary gas jet, derives its luminosity from, the presence of minute particles of incandescent carbon. It is also to the same element that we are indebted for the electric light, whether in the form of the arc light or the incandescent filament. It would now seem as if the great luminary itself owed its surpassing luster to the presence of "mighty glowing cloudsof the identical substance to which our ordnary methods of illumination are so much indebted.—[New York News.