Curiosities of the sky, a popular presentation of the great riddles and mysteries of astronomy (1909)
Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851-1929 · New York, London, Harper & brothers · leaf 111
Laplaces celebrated hypothesis of the manner oforigin of the solar system from a rotating and con-tracting nebula surrounding the sun had guidedspeculation on that subject, and had been tentativelyextended to cover the evolution of systems in general.The apparent forms of some of the nebulae which… … LORD ROSSEs nebula WHIRLING NEBULA Gemini bearing no little resemblance to the planetSaturn with its rings, both of which appear to bepractical realizations of Laplaces idea, and theelliptical rings surrounding the central condensationof the Andromeda Nebula may be cited for the samekind of proof.…
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