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LoC No.: 06014465

Title: Modern cosmogonies

Contents: 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 globes -- World-building out of meteorites -- Cosmogony in the twentieth century -- Protyle: what is it? -- Universal forces -- The inevitable ether -- The forms of nebulæ -- The procession of suns -- Our own system -- Remnants and survivals -- Life as the outcome.

Credits: Fay Dunn, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https: //www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Author: Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary), 1842-1907

EBook No.: 64537

Published: Feb 13, 2021

Downloads: 31

Language: English

Subject: Cosmogony

LoCC: Science: Astronomy

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.

This edition has images.

LoC No.: 06014465

Title: Modern cosmogonies

Contents: 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 globes -- World-building out of meteorites -- Cosmogony in the twentieth century -- Protyle: what is it? -- Universal forces -- The inevitable ether -- The forms of nebulæ -- The procession of suns -- Our own system -- Remnants and survivals -- Life as the outcome.

Credits: Fay Dunn, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https: //www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Author: Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary), 1842-1907

EBook No.: 64537

Published: Feb 13, 2021

Downloads: 31

Language: English

Subject: Cosmogony

LoCC: Science: Astronomy

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.