THE EARTH'S AXIS

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18678, 29 April 1926, Page 8

THE EARTH'S AXIS

CAUSE OF OSCILLATION

AN AMERICAN'S CLAW. > n oaocumi-cwn,^ (tIUTU * | April 88th, 7.15 pj».) SAX FJRAJfcISOO, April 27 Captain Thomas See, X* v? maticiao and Government Asttfeaa* at .Muro Island, announces ths ducv* cry of the cause of the rariatka ofUt». tude, or tho periodic "wobfcW* of t|* earth's axis. Ho said ho lias demonstrate*} lutfe mutually that tho phMoamu of motion, or tho shift of tin earth's axis in the globe, which hu scientists for years, is doe to tide* ia ihe Pacific Ocean. The discovery was the mult of 40 years' study of the tides, and ths ings under his hypothesis agree tmrtli with astronomical observation* lu countries over a period of T< years. Captain See says tho discmrary ; t of tho most notable triumphs it tfei physics of the earth. [Many discoveries which fat* tied the scientific world btft made by Captain Thomas J. tronomer and imithematiciaajjiiiL—the most important among (£7 been the cause of loii. During 190S-09 ho laws of tho formation of tern, showing that the satellites were not bodies which now govern UtefrMMu but have all been captured leFSe sinco had their orbits reduced and rounded up into almost circles under tho secular action «{ t resisting medium. The.rwm aQm shown io i"- •< 'lot 'ched pluHt cajfani ;>s• .ho earth, and not a detached tion of t'c ,cr rest rial globe: thrift! M)l4 lie claimed to have eetiblieked tU physical cause of the equilibrium of the earth between land and water hemispheres, crowned the earlier researches <wi gony with a triumph of the first Qtd«r.]