  We prove a priori bounds for the trace of the second fundamental form of a
$C^4$ isometric embedding into $R^{n+1}$ of a metric $g$ of non-negative
sectional curvature on $S^n$, in terms of the scalar curvature, and the
diameter of $g$. These estimates give a bound on the extrinsic geometry in
terms of intrinsic quantities. They generalize estimates originally obtained by
Weyl for the case $n=2$ and positive curvature, and then by P. Guan and the
first author for non-negative curvature and $n=2$. Using $C^{2,\alpha}$
interior estimates of Evans and Krylov for concave fully nonlinear elliptic
partial differential equations, these bounds allow us to obtain the following
convergence theorem: For any $\epsilon>0$, the set of metrics of non-negative
sectional curvature and scalar curvature bounded below by $\epsilon$ which are
isometrically embedable in Euclidean space $R^{n+1}$ is closed in the H\"older
space $C^{4,\alpha}$, $0<\alpha<1$. These results are obtained in an effort to
understand the following higher dimensional version of the Weyl embedding
problem which we propose: \emph{Suppose that $g$ is a smooth metric of
non-negative sectional curvature and positive scalar curvature on \S^n$ which
is locally isometrically embeddable in $R^{n+1}$. Does $(S^n,g)$ then admit a
smooth global isometric embedding into $R^{n+1}$?}
