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 299
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… … La Place (i749-1827) showed the discontinuous nature of some of the objectsthen classed as nebulae, the question arose whetherwith sufficient power all nebulae might not be re-solved into discrete stars. Fortunately, the inven-tion of the spectroscope by Kirchhoff about 1S60,and Dr Huggixss…
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