Modern cosmogonies by Agnes M. Clerke

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Author Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary), 1842-1907
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)
Language English
LoC Class QB: Science: Astronomy
Subject Cosmogony
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EBook-No. 64537
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