Excerpt from The Evolution of Worlds: President's Address, Annual Meeting, January 10, 1911 In the paper of this evening. We are to consider the more striking evidences of development in that vast extent of time and space which is regarded as the domain Of astronomv. Here as in other sciences - ii we are not insisting too much on this cir cumstance the idea of evolution is not new. Passing over not a few earlier and worthy attempts to account for the present order of things with and about us - our world, and those bodies ...
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Excerpt from The Evolution of Worlds: President's Address, Annual Meeting, January 10, 1911 In the paper of this evening. We are to consider the more striking evidences of development in that vast extent of time and space which is regarded as the domain Of astronomv. Here as in other sciences - ii we are not insisting too much on this cir cumstance the idea of evolution is not new. Passing over not a few earlier and worthy attempts to account for the present order of things with and about us - our world, and those bodies the moon, the sun, the planets to which our world is neighbor and near-bred we mav cite the bold and harnumising hypothesis of Laplace, with which should be associated also the names of Wright and Kant, though their speculations were not known to Laplace. This Nebular Hypothesis or Theory.con tenzplated a vast nebula occupying a space greater than that whose limits are suggested bv the orbit of the outermost planet. This nebula, through rotation, and contraction from the emission Of heat. Under the operation of dynamical laws, was condenser. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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