Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 298
accord with modern results,they are of interest in the history of the cosmogony. Cosmogonic speculation of a scientific characterbegan with Kant, who was the first of modern phi-losophers to advance a definite mechanical explana-tion of the formation of the heavenly bodies, and par-ticularly of the… … Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) pothesis. La Place advanced the nebular hypothesisas a result of his prolonged study of the mechanicsof our system, and the sound dynamical conceptionsunderlying his explanation secured for it immediaterecognition. The work of Sir William Herschellent observational support…
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