The old nebular hypothesis supposes the solar system, and other similar systems through the universe which we see at a distance as stars, to have originated in the condensation of fiery nebulous matter. This hypothesis was invented before the discovery... Mathematical and Physical Papers - Page 29by William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule - 1884Full view - About this book
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 540 pages
...year by the influx of meteors. But now spectrum analysis gives proof finally con-lusive against ii. The old nebular hypothesis supposes the solar system...invented before the discovery of thermo-dynamics, or the nebulse would not have been supposed to be fiery ; and the idea seems never to have occurred to any... | |
| 1871 - 518 pages
...marvels of the Sun will be dynamically explained according to known properties-of matter. Sola- Heat. The old nebular hypothesis supposes the solar system...This hypothesis was invented before the discovery of the thermo-dynamics, or the nebulae would not have been supposed to be fiery; and the idea seems never... | |
| 1872 - 520 pages
...trusts to our Government exercising the same wise liberality as heretofore in the interests of science. The old nebular hypothesis supposes the solar system...invented before the discovery of thermo-dynamics, or the nebulas would not have been supposed to be fiery ; and the idea seems never to have occurred to any... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - 716 pages
...trusts to our Government exercising the same wise liberality as heretofore in the interests of science. The old nebular hypothesis supposes the solar system,...and other similar systems through the universe which wo see at a distance as stars, to have originated in the condensation of fiery nebulous matter. This... | |
| L.T. Townsend - 1873 - 268 pages
...of Sir William Thomson, at the Edinburgh meeting of the British Scientific Association, 1871: — " The old nebular hypothesis supposes the solar system,...be fiery; and the idea seems never to have occurred to any of its inventors or early supporters, that the matter, the condensation of which they supposed... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1894 - 642 pages
...trusts to our Government exercising the same wise liberality as heretofore in the interests of science. The old nebular hypothesis supposes the solar system...fiery ; and the idea seems never to have occurred to any of its inventors or early supporters that the matter, the condensation of which they supposed... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1894 - 630 pages
...trusts to our Government exercising the same wise liberality as heretofore in the interests of science. The old nebular hypothesis supposes the solar system...fiery ; and the idea seems never to have occurred to any of its inventors or early supporters that the matter, the condensation of which they supposed... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1894 - 628 pages
...trusts to our Government exercising the same wise liberality as heretofore in the interests of science. The old nebular hypothesis supposes the solar system...as stars, to have originated in the condensation of fierynebulous matter. This hypothesis was invented before the discovery of thermodynamics, or the nebula:... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1894 - 636 pages
...trusts to our Government exercising the same wise liberality as heretofore in the interests of science. The old nebular hypothesis supposes the solar system...other similar systems through the universe which we sec at a distance as stars, to have originated in the condensation of fiery nebulous matter. This hypothesis... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1897 - 394 pages
...Traut., 1864. p. 442. 1 Proc. Soy. Hoc., 1865, vol. liv, p. 39. 78 THE SUN'S PLACE IN NATUEE. [CHAP. " The old nebular hypothesis supposes the solar system,...fiery ; and the idea seems never to have occurred to any of its inventors or «arly supporters that the matter, the condensation of which they supposed... | |
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