The nebular hypothesis of the origin of the solar system. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He gave us the fundamental idea of what is called the nebular hypothesis. From Wordnik.com. [Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work] Reference
Such is, in fact, the doctrine of the origin of our system which has been advanced in that celebrated speculation known as the nebular theory of Laplace. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Heavens] Reference
“Entwickelungsgeschichte” out of a nebular blastema. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
Is the nebular hypothesis likely to win an established place in science?. From Wordnik.com. [Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Debate Index Second Edition] Reference
I give this idea, in a nebular state, trusting that you will consolidate it. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Against looming nebular curtains, Flandry saw two pitted meteors come at him. From Wordnik.com. [Agent Of The Terran Empire]
According to the nebular hypothesis, these bodies are the consolidated portions of. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
With his famous nebular hypothesis, Kant found out how planets, stars, and galaxies form. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Philosophical Development] Reference
A risen moon, the mighty Pleiades, and the luminous nebular veil cast frost-cold hrilliance. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
A risen moon, the mighty Pleiades, and the luminous nebular veil cast frost-cold brilliance. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories]
Look at these shots of nebular, which are essentially star formations in their earlier stages. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2002] Reference
The dusty material accreted to the nebular midplane where it formed progressively larger clumps. From Wordnik.com. [AP Environmental Science Chapter 3- The Solid Earth] Reference
The gropings of scientific explanations take turns in thwarting or favoring the nebular reverie. From Wordnik.com. [COSMIC IMAGES] Reference
Indeed, we found some stars which might be regarded as not far advanced beyond the nebular condition. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
No attempt has been made to supplant the nebular hypothesis by any other theory of cosmical evolution. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
In a few months or years the nebular lines diminish in brightness, and the continuous spectrum develops. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Evolutionary cosmology began in 1796 with Laplace's nebular hypothesis for the origin of the solar system. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin's Revolution] Reference
Does the nebular hypothesis furnish the best natural solution of the origin of the planetary and stellar worlds?. From Wordnik.com. [Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Debate Index Second Edition] Reference
The earth formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago from a nebular cloud of dust and gas that surrounded the sun. From Wordnik.com. [AP Environmental Science Chapter 3- The Solid Earth] Reference
He is best known for his theory of the formation of the planetary systems, the so-called “nebular hypothesis.”. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and Selected Essays] Reference
On the Continent, Herder was pioneer, both of the claims of popular poetry and of the nebular theory of authorship. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series] Reference
This fact, coupled with Laplace's commanding position, caused the nebular hypothesis to be received with great favor. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Perrine and Ritchey discovered that the nebular structure had apparently moved outward from the nova, from September to. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
If the "nebular theory" of the universe be true, this is unquestionably the exact condition of things in the Milky-way. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
In this roil of nebular matter, all instruments were troubled, the dust spoke in every spectrum, a million-year birth cry. From Wordnik.com. [Agent Of The Terran Empire]
Herschel believed that he could trace the different stages of nebular condensation which result in the evolution of a star. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
We find an illustration of this law in the simplest of the sciences, if the nebular hypothesis be true, as most astronomers believe. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
And at these words the vast mass of congealed water rose majestically out of the ocean, and floated off into the nebular hypothesis. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891] Reference
He accepted the nebular hypothesis in terms of the physical laws that yielded the developmental hypothesis, both in astronomy and biology. From Wordnik.com. [Chauncey Wright] Reference
Even "design" and "purpose" are recognized as quite compatible with evolution, and even with the special "nebular" and Darwinian forms of it. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
LAPLACE was the first to suggest the nebular hypothesis, which he did with great diffidence, not as a theory proved, or hardly likely, but as. From Wordnik.com. [An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] Reference
His nebular hypothesis in the last volume of his essays is the most masterly astronomical paper I have ever read, and in his forthcoming volume on. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference
Goethe (who, however, did not wholly accede to the ‘nebular’ theory) to study the subject, and the effect was soon noticeable in his own poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series] Reference
But any such rapid condensation of "vapory matter," in the light of Laplace's "nebular theory," is manifestly too absurd for scientific recognition. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
The stars shone splendid and unobscured, as he hung at nearly the edge of their air capsule'red stars, blue-white giants, clouds of nebular matter. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
The nebular hypothesis was first propounded by Kant, who suggested that the sun and planets originated from a vast and diffused mass of cosmical matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
In the following year Mr. Roberts more than doubled for us the great extension of the nebular region which surrounds the trapezium in the constellation of Orion. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
Although all recent novae have been observed to become planetary or stellar nebulae, they seem not to remain nebular for any length of time; they have gone further and become. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
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