In New Haven, Conn. last week Edwin Hubble delivered the first three of eight endowed lectures on the present state of nebular knowledge, free to Yale students and townsfolk. He wasted no time ...

Pierre Laplace, French mathematician (1749-1827), devised the celebrated “nebular hypothesis”: that the ... Last week, in short, science might have been glad to write off the solar system ...

Guyot deliver-ed a course of lectures in this city, purporting to be at the request of a number of orthodox ministers and others, in which he inculcated the nebular hypothesis, which involves the ...

Then follow chapters on the vegetable kingdom, evolution, both in its biological and chemical aspects, mimicry, the nebular hypothesis, tidal evolution, energy, the spectroscope, molecular forces ...