 The essential principle of the explanation is this ; at some period of time, long past, the sun's initial heat was generated by the collision of pieces of matter gravitationally attracted together from distant space to build up his present mass ; and...  Advanced Physiography - Page 133by John Thornton (M.A.) - 1890 - 342 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English periodicals - 1887 - 920 pages
...assumption regarding actions of prehistoric times. The essential principle of the explanation is this : at some period of time, long past, the sun's initial...the cooling has been, and continues to be, so slow. In some otherwise excellent books it is " paradoxically " stated that the sun is becoming hotter because... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1887 - 712 pages
...prehistoric times. You understand, then, that the essential principle of the explanation is this : at some period of time, long past, the sun's initial...was generated by the collision of pieces of matter gravjtationally attracted together from distant space to build up his present mass ; and shrinkage... | |
 | Science - 1887 - 926 pages
...prehistoric times. You ^understand, then, that the essential —^principle of the explanation is this/: at some period of time, long past, the sun's initial...was generated by the collision of pieces of matter -gjajitationally attracted together from distant space to build up his present mass ; and shrinkage... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1887 - 672 pages
...through the work done by the mutual gravitation of all parts of the shrinking mass, the vast thermal capacity in virtue of which the cooling has been, and continues to be, so slow. I assume that you have not been misled by any of your teachers who may have told you, or by any of... | |
 | 1887 - 732 pages
...of prehistoric times. You understand, then, that the essential principle of the explanation is this: at some period of time, long past, the sun's initial heat Was generated bv the collision of pieces of matter gravitationally attracted together from (listant space to build... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1889 - 642 pages
...assumption regarding actions of prehistoric times. The essential principle of the explanation is this ; at some period of time, long past, the sun's initial...the cooling has been, and continues to be, so slow. In some otherwise excellent books it is " paradoxically " stated that the sun is becoming hotter because... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - Geology - 1889 - 486 pages
...assumption regarding actions of prehistoric times. The essential principle of the explanation is this : at some period of time, long past, the sun's initial...the cooling has been, and continues to be, so slow. In some otherwise excellent books it is " paradoxically " stated that the sun is becoming hotter because... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1889 - 692 pages
...assumption regarding actions of prehistoric times. The essential principle of the explanation is this ; at some period of time, long past, the sun's initial...virtue of which the cooling has been, and continues to bo, so slow. In some otherwise excellent books it is " paradoxically " stated that the sun is becoming... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 288 pages
...IV. 194. gravitationally (grav-i-ta'shon-al-i), adv. By gravitation, or in the manner of gravitation. The sun's initial heat was generated by the collision of pieces of matter gravitalionally attracted together from distant space. Sir W. Thomson, Pop. Sei. Mo., XXXI. 20. gravitative... | |
 | Science - 1887 - 976 pages
...prehistoric times. You understand, then, that the essential principle of the explanation is this : at some period of time, long past, the sun's initial...gravitation of all parts of the shrinking mass, the vast thermal capacity in virtue of which the cooling has been, and continues to be, so slow. I assume that... | |
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