| Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1865 - 636 pages
...produced by inverting it, having been founded on different data and arrived at by independent reasoning. According to the physicists of the Mayerian school,...intrinsically of the same nature, meteoritic masses in fact, hi an advanced intermediate state between the condition of meteorites and that of true planets, in... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1865 - 634 pages
...In the theory now offered they commence with Force and Heat and Light and Matter locally origtuating in the Sun. The " Theory of the Minor Planets " is...which has been reduced to fragments, but of their beitfg bodies intrinsically of the same nature, meteoritic masses in fact, in an advanced intermediate... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1866 - 818 pages
...coalesced. The " Theory of the Minor Planets " is briefly considered. All the phenomena they present arc regarded as supporting the conclusion that their peculiar...state between the condition of meteorites and that of tnie planets, in process of gradual convergence towards each other, preparatory to their coalescence... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1866 - 798 pages
...which they had previously coalesced. The " Theory of the Minor Planets" is briefly considered. All tho phenomena they present are regarded as supporting...their being bodies intrinsically of the same nature, metcoritic masses in fact, in an advanced intermediate state between the condition of meteorites and... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1866 - 452 pages
...each other, preparatory to their coalescence into one greater planet, contrary to the prevalent notion of their having formerly constituted one heavenly body which has been reduced to fragments ; all their phenomena believed to support that notion being equally capable of explanation in agreement... | |
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