According to the nebular hypothesis, our star system formed from the gravitational collapse of part of a giant molecular ...

Pierre Laplace, French mathematician (1749-1827), devised the celebrated “nebular hypothesis”: that the solar system was originally a diffuse, whirling, gaseous mass. As this nebular mass ...

This model of solar system formation is known as the nebular hypothesis. The solar system is structured in a roughly flat plane called the ecliptic, with most planets orbiting the sun in the same ...

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 hypothesis, which involves the ...

Prof. Lockyer was interviewed by a reporter of the Post of that city, and in speaking of the bearing of the result of his observations upon the nebular theory said. View Full Article in ...

The question may be asked,4t of what sub-strict soldier of the nebular hypothesis should stick to his theory and arms by asserting that the planet'and rings were once in a fluid state, and the ...

The Nebular Hypothesis and Modern Cosmogony: being the Halley Lecture delivered on May 23, 1922. By J. H. Jeans. Pp. 31 + 4 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press ...

Joly, in discussing the age of the earth, assumes the truth of the nebular hypothesis, though he admits that “there was indeed some scanty sedimentation in Archæan times.” ...

In 1755, German philosopher Immanuel Kant first proposed the nebular hypothesis, in which a great cloud of material, the solar nebula, preceded the Sun and planets. Bringing the universe to your door.