Modern cosmogonies
By: by Agnes M. Clerke ...
Publisher: A. and C. Black
Published: 1905
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Cosmogony
Table of contents: title: From Thales to Kant.; title: The nebular hypothesis.; title: Criticisms of the nebular hypothesis.; title: The nebular hypothesis varied and improved.; title: Tidal friction as an agent in cosmogony.; title: The fission of rotating globes.; title: World-building out of meteorites.; title: Cosmogony in the twentieth century.; title: Protyle: what is it?; title: Universal forces.; title: The inevitable ether.; title: The forms of nebulæ.; title: The procession of suns.; title: Our own system.; title: Remnants and survivals.; title: Life as the outcome.