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Views of the Architecture of the Heavens: In a Series of Letters to a Lady: Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy

Autor John Pringle Nichol
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 iul 2009
John Pringle Nichol (1804–59) was a Scottish polymath whose major interests were economics and astronomy; he did much to popularise the latter by his writings. He became Regius Professor of Astronomy at Glasgow in 1836, and in the following year published Views of the Architecture of the Heavens which was immediately successful. George Eliot wrote in a letter of 1841, 'I have been revelling in Nichol's Architecture of the Heavens and Phenomena of the Solar System, and have been in imagination winging my flight from system to system, and from universe to universe ...' Nichol was a supporter of the nebular hypothesis – that stars form in massive and dense clouds of molecular hydrogen which are gravitationally unstable, and coalesce to smaller denser clumps, which then collapse and form stars – which in modified form is the model most widely accepted today.
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ISBN-13: 9781108005265
ISBN-10: 1108005268
Pagini: 284
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Part I. The Form of the Existing Universe: Letter 1. General considerations on the system of the universe; Letter 2. The power and reach of telescopes; Letter 3. Aspects, forms and distances of remote firmaments; Part II. The Constituent Mechanisms, or the Principle of the Vitality of Stellar Arrangements: Letter 4. Probable universality of planetary systems; Letter 5. Triple stars; Part III. The Origin and Probable Destiny of the Present Form of the Material Creation; Letter 6. The nebulae; Letter 7. The nebular hypothesis; Letter 8. Speculation; Notes; Additions and corrections.

Descriere

A popular account of astronomy by an early supporter of the nebular hypothesis.