Ever since man perceived that the solar system is a cohort of planets revolving around a central sun, at different distances but in the same direction and in almost the same plane, he has wondered how ...

DR. JEANS'S analysis of the modes of rupture of fluid masses under the influence of excessive rotation or of the gravitation of other bodies, earned him the Adams prize of the University of Cambridge ...

A year ago last winter, Prof. Guyot deliver-ed a course of lectures in this city, purporting to be at the request of a number of orthodox ministers and others, in which he inculcated the nebular ...

Astronomers and geologists have several techniques for dating Earth, and, therefore, the age of the solar system. From the radiometric dating of rocks, which measures the known decay rates of ...

In the 19th century, astronomers believed that solar systems formed in nebular clouds throughout the universe. But 20th century scientists rejected that idea, arguing that our solar system was an ...

First edition, London, 1844; an American edition was published in New York, Wiley and Putnam, 1845. "Communications by H. Weekes, Esq."--Page 134-142. Contents Design of the Vestiges explained -- ...

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From Thales to Kant.--The nebular hypothesis.--Criticisms of the nebular hypothesis.--The nebular hypothesis varied and improved.--Tidal friction as an agent in cosmogony.--The fission of rotating ...

The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world's most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering and medicine, and is the oldest scientific academy in ...