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  • The leading theory of how our sun formed is called the Nebular Hypothesis Tarbuck and Lutgens 1993, 10, When a massive star “dies,” it collapses back upon itself and explodes, becoming what is called a nova.

    The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001

  • The leading theory of how our sun formed is called the Nebular Hypothesis Tarbuck and Lutgens 1993, 10, When a massive star “dies,” it collapses back upon itself and explodes, becoming what is called a nova.

    The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001

  • The description of the various kinds of nebulæ leads us to consider what is called the Nebular Hypothesis.

    The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

  • He won four Hugo Awards and one Nebular Award along with countless other lesser known awards.

    Isaac Asimov Biography | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2006

  • It is now being supplanted by the “Spiral Nebular Hypothesis” developed by Professors Moulton and Chamberlin of the University of

    Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

  • Laplace to construct his "Nebular Hypothesis," or that magnificent system of world-structures which regards the universe as originally consisting of uniformly diffused matter filling all space, and hence

    Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

  • It is the boast of the Darwinian systematizers that their development theory not only harmonizes with, but admirably supplements and out-rounds the grander speculation of Laplace, termed the "Nebular Hypothesis," which regards the universe as having originally consisted of uniformly diffused matter, filling all space, which subsequently became aggregated by gravitation, much after the manner of Mr. Darwin's little whirligig, into an infinite number of sun-systems, occupying inconceivably vast areas in space.

    Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

  • With the conception of an atomic and gravitating Aether, the Nebular

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

  • Now this form has never been expressly adopted by Professor Huxley; so far from it, in his lecture on this subject at the Royal Institution before referred to, he observes, [57] "I can testify, from personal experience, it is possible to have a complete faith in the general doctrine of evolution, and yet to hesitate in accepting the Nebular, or the Uniformitarian, or the Darwinian hypotheses in all their integrity and fulness."

    On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

  • Anatomy, -- the doctrine of Homologies, -- the Embryologic scheme, revealing that all animate forms are developed after one archetype, -- the splendid Nebular guess of Laplace, -- the thought of the

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

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