Astronomy for the use of schools and academies (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908, Rolfe, W. J. (William James), 1827-1910 · New York : Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 421
n a smaller scale, like theoriginal solar mass surrounded by its atmosphere. In thesame way that the latter formed itself first into rings, whichafterwards condensed into planets, so the planetary atmos-pheres, if sufficiently extensive, would form themselves intorings, which would condense into… … Fig. 456. Such is the celebrated nebular hypothesis of Laplace. Itstarts, not with a purely nebulous mass, but with the sun, sur-rounded by an immense atmosphere, out of which the planetswere formed by gradual condensation. Fig. 456 representsthe condensing mass according to this theory. 390. The…
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