Modern cosmogonies
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Modern Cosmogonies is a work by Agnes M. Clerke. The preface says that of the sixteen chapters constituting this little work, thirteen have been published as a series, begun in Knowledge and continued in Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News.
The text says the wide acceptance of the theory of vortices was at least in part due to the impressive largeness of its framework, and that Descartes left nothing out. The text says a philosophy, a metaphysic, and a cosmogony were linked together in a single plan. A passage says that innumerable systems are doubtless organized on a totally different principle from that regulating the family of the sun, and that the nebular hypothesis, even in its most improved form, has no application to them. The text says that protoplasm is, in this respect, the antitype of water, since water is a stable compound because its formation is attended by loss of energy.
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- Author
- Agnes M. Clerke
- Pages
- 118
- Language
- English
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- Astronomy
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