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" If, for example, the spiral is the form normally assumed by a contracting nebulous mass, the idea at once suggests itself that the solar system has been evolved from a spiral nebula, while the photographs show that the spiral nebula is not, as a rule,... "
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific - Page 168
by Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1900
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Publications of the Lick Observatory of the University of California, Volume 8

1908 - 344 pages
...Observations of a New Asteroid 1899 FD.," AN, 3635. "Elements of Asteroid 1899 FD." (by HK Palmer), AN 3635. While I must leave to others an estimate of the importance...useful in a number of fields which are fairly well defined. It is clearly unsuitable for photographing the Moon and planets, and for star charting. On...
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The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 11

1900 - 474 pages
...A. A'., 3635. of double star systems. The actual conditions of motion in these particular nebula?, as indicated by the photographs, are obviously very...question which has already been taken up by Professor Chambcrlin and Mr. Moulton, of the University of Chicago. The Crossley reflector promises to be useful...
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Geology, Volume 2

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury - 1905 - 730 pages
...hardly distinguishable from a faint star-disk. "3. Most of these nebula; have a spiral structure. . . . "While I must leave to others an estimate of the importance...Chamberlin and Mr. Moulton of the University of Chicago." — Astrophys. Jour., June 1900, pp. 347,348. FIG. 12. — A very large, highly dispersed nebula, Messier...
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Carnegie Institution of Washington - 1905 - 340 pages
...distinguishable from a faint star disk. ' ' 3. Most of these nebulae have a spiral structure. * * * " While I must leave to others an estimate of the importance...already been taken up by Professor Chamberlin and Mr. Moultonof the University of Chicago. " Astrophys. Jour., June, 1900, pp.347-348. remarkable nebula...
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Geology, Volume 2

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury - 1905 - 740 pages
...characterized by the simplicity attributed to the contracting mass in the nebular hypothesis. Thu La a question which has already been taken up by Professor...Chamberlin and Mr. Moulton of the University of Chicago." — Astrophys. Jour., June 1900, pp. 347,3-1?!. ;sier 33, in the Triangle, in which !£ haze is irregular...
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An Introduction to Astronomy

Forest Ray Moulton - 1906 - 608 pages
...rule, characterized by the simplicity attributed to the contracting mass in the nebular (Laplacian) hypothesis. This is a question which has already been taken up by Chamberlin and Moulton of the University of Chicago." EVOLUTION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM The spiral nebulas...
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Geology: Earth history: genesis, paleozoic. [1907] xxiv, 692 p

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury - 1907 - 770 pages
...simplicity attributed to the contracting mass in the nebular hypothesis. This is a question which lias already been taken up by Professor Chamberlin and Mr. Moulton of the University of Chicago." — Astrophys. Jour., June 1900, pp. 347,348. Fui. 12. — A very large, highly di-i|>ersed nebula....
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Popular Astronomy, Volume 23; Volume 1915

1915 - 778 pages
...rule, characterized by the simplicity attributed to the contracting mass in the nebular [Laplacian] hypothesis. This is a question which has already been taken up by Chamberlin and Moulton of the University of Chicago." From a spiral nebula, similar, though undoubtedly...
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A History of Modern Planetary Physics: Fruitful Encounters

Stephen G. Brush - 1996 - 384 pages
...solar system has been evolved from a spiral nebula, while the photographs show that the spiral nebular is not, as a rule, characterized by the simplicity...taken up by Professor Chamberlin and Mr. Moulton. (Keeler 1900: 348) A few months later Chamberlin and Moulton, 1n a joint article in Science, agreed...
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