Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 36
ed to account for it that appearance,not reality, was here concerned; that the nebula hadalways existed, and was only shown up by the lightfrom the conflagration travelling outward from thenova at the rate of one hundred and eighty-six thousandmiles a second. This would make the catastrophe tohave…
Cosmogony
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