The solar system truly solved; demonstrating by the perfect harmony of
the planets, founded on the four universal laws, the Sun to be an
electric space; and a source of every natural production displayed
throughout the solar system. By James Hopkins.[82] London, 1849, 8vo.
The author says:
"I am satisfied that I have given the true _laws_ constituting the _Sun_ to
be _space_; and I call upon those disposed to maintain the contrary, to
give true _laws_ showing him to be a body: until such can be satisfactorily
established, I have an undoubted claim to the credit of my theory,--That
the Sun is an _Electric Space_, fed and governed by the {42} planets, which
have the property of attracting heat from it; and the means of supplying
the necessary _pabulum_ by their degenerated air driven off towards the
central space--the wonderful alembic in which it becomes transmuted to the
revivifying necessities of continuous action; and the central space or Sun
being perfectly electric, has the counter property of repulsing the bodies
that attract it. How wonderful a conception! How beautiful, how magnificent
an arrangement!
"O Centre! O Space! O Electric Space!"