Pierre Laplace, French mathematician (1749-1827), devised the celebrated “nebular hypothesis”: that the solar system was originally a diffuse, whirling, gaseous mass. As this nebular mass ...

R. Moulton and See on the evolution of our , system have greatly shaken the faith of astronomers in Laplace's well-known Nebular Hypothesis. More than a century ago Laplace, who more completely ...

THE nebular hypothesis of the origin of the planetary system, presented by Laplace “avec la défiance que doit inspirer tout ce qui n'est point un résultat de I'observation ou du calcul,” is ...

L'Astronomie for September contains a panegyric on Laplace, delivered by Dr. E ... He also made useful researches on the theory of the tides; and his famous nebular hypothesis, though no longer ...

Prof. Lockyer was interviewed by a reporter of the Post of that city, and in speaking of the bearing of the result of his observations upon the nebular theory said. View Full Article in ...

More than 200 years since Immanuel Kant and Pierre Simon Laplace first put forward the nebular hypothesis—which holds that our solar system evolved from a cloud of matter rotating around the sun ...

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 ...

According to the most widely held astronomical model (the nebular hypothesis), new stars are born from massive clouds of dust and gas (aka a nebula) that experience gravitational collapse.

This model of solar system formation is known as the nebular hypothesis. The solar system is structured in a roughly flat plane called the ecliptic, with most planets orbiting the sun in the same ...