More than 200 years since Immanuel Kant and Pierre Simon Laplace first put forward the nebular hypothesis—which holds that our solar system evolved from a cloud of matter rotating around the ...
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 ...
THIS book contains a very imperfect account of the nebular hypothesis of Laplace and Kant, with certain variations which must be incorrect, because they violate mechanical principles, and with certain ...
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