Modern cosmogonies,
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| Author / Creator: | Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary), 1842-1907 |
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| Imprint: | London, A. and C. Black, 1905. |
| Description: | vii, 287 p. 20 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/850912 |
Table of Contents:
- From Thales to Kant
- The nebular hypothesis
- Criticisms of the nebular hypothesis
- The nebular hypothesis varied and improved
- Tidal friction as an agent in cosmogony
- The fission of rotating globes
- World-building out of meteorites
- Cosmogony in the twentieth century
- Protyle: what is it?--Universal forces
- The inevitable ether
- The forms of nebulæ
- The procession of suns
- Our own system
- Remnants and survivals
- Life as the outcome.
