The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1868-10-13
SEVENTEENTH yoLUME---NUMBER $40.

| recently discovered, and can now prove almost
that the nebule are of just such materials as that
| hypothesis calls for. = III ..gH .f
As this chaotic mass of matter bcgan--so runs
the hypothesis-to radiate of its heat, (for the
assumption is and it is supported by many anal
ogies) that the centre of our planet is still in an
ineandescent state-as, therefore, this chaotic
and highly heated mass began to radiate off its
heat and to eeol, it began to contract, and thus
motion was generated from that motion, the hy-
pothesis derives the primum mobile or the power
which first gave the planets the motion in their
orbits.
Such, in brief are the assumptionsof Laplace,
and, being granted, the rest is philosophical de-
duction. Newton's laws took no notice Of the
great FIRST cause that sent the planets wheeling
round the sun in their peculiar orbits, and sent
them all revolving and rotating in the same
direction on their axis; nor did his laws attempt
te account for the satellites aud rings which At
tend Some of the planets ~
In going beyond gravity and grappling with
first causes and prianum mobile, the Frenchman
stalked forth into dark regions and travelled
proudly upon grounds which the Englishmar, as
great and as gigantic as was his intellect had not
ventured to essay. To explain the nebule hy-
pothesis upon the basis of these assumptions, let
avail ourselves of familiar instances for illus.
tration. You have observed, while driving fast
along muddy road, that the carriage wheels
threw the mud, not straight off from the carriage
to the side of the road, but forward and nearly
in the place in which the wheels turn. If you
will watch the larger pieces of mud closely you
will discover that they have rotary motion,
like the wheel, and In the same direction. Bear.
ing in mind this homely illustration, let us re-
turn tothe original nebulous mass. 1t is highly
heated and easier of attraction by being globular
in form. Consider it to be at rest and the pro-,
cess of cooling to have commenced, and see when
it takes place. The cooling is from the outside,
the cendensing is consequently on the outside
a movement commences from the cir
cumference towards the centre and because it Is
from the circumference towards the centre, it is
a rotary motion. "'.' "' ''
1t is such motion as we see in the whirlwind
on land and in the whirlpool in the water. This
begets revolving motion either to the right OF
to the left, and in the nebule of the solar sys-
teri, it was from the right to the left. Thus the
nebulous mass set in motion. -.- .ga.r
AS 1t continued to cool and contract, the outer
particles continued to flow inward, and, as in ell
revolving bodies, the PARTICLES at the circumfer-
ence travel faster than the particles near the
in rushing PARTICLES carried their
from the circumference to the centre,
it there, and gradually accelerated the
revolving motion to such an extent that the Gems
trifngal force at the circumference became greater
than the centripedal, and SO a lump or ring was
thrown off, first one and then another; for, as
the nebulous mass continued to cool and con-
tract, its velocity of rotation continued to in
crease, and so, first the matter for Neptune and
his satellites; then for Uranus, then for Saturn
and his rings, was thrown off all in and near the
plane in which the great central mass Itself was
revolving
These fragments were not thrown off in the
solid state, but as liquid or gaseous matter; for
we know that Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and the
earth are all spheroids, and of such shape as o
mass of matter only in the fluid condition revolv-
ing about its own axis could assume, and we
know that the interior of the earth is still in a
fluid state, which is quite consistent with the
idea that the whole was once fluid. e1
Saturn is still in the sky with his rings to
attest this mode of sloughing of matter; nor In
the sun altogether without them. These rings
so holds the theory-were afterwards broken
up into one or more planets with or without
or without rings all Of which con-
tinued to move nearly in the same plane, and to
rotate on their axis; they reyolye, every one with
the exception already mentioned, In the Same
direction around their primaries.
The stream Of the asteroids between Mars and
Jupiter now stand out under this grand and
sublime hypothesis, not as fragments of broken
planet, but as pieces of severed ring.
November and August meteors constitute @
ring. The zodiacal light is also ring, and some
Of the most remarkable nebule in the sky are
rings. Striking analoges are afforded by some
of them in favor of Laplace's hypothesis, as the
nebule in Canes Venatci with its central az.
glomeration, its rings and planetary nebulous
mass in the distance. -
Then again. in Leo, Lord Ross telescope re-
veals nebple that make still more plausible the
great Frenchman's hypothesis. esq
In other parts Of the sky. and as if to show
that nebnlae do grow into stars and suns, that
monster telescope has picked up planetary nebule
that apparently stars in the process Of forma-
ton. $685.
But Saturn presents the most grand and strik-
ing example Of all, though We find in the heavens
nebule gilmore fantastic forms and curious shapes
than. Saturn with his rings and moons. p.
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