| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1888 - 624 pages
...composition, the extreme forms, iron and stony, would in time be produced as a result of collisions. XVI. In recorded time there has been no such thing as a...say nothing of masses as large as the sun ; but the known distribution of meteorites throughout space indicates that snch collisions form an integral part... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1888 - 668 pages
...composition, the extreme forms, iron and stony, would in time be produced as a result of collisions. XVI. In recorded time there has been no such thing as a...matter as large as the earth, to say nothing of masses of mailer as large as the sun ; but the known distribution of meteorites throughout space indicates... | |
| 1887 - 470 pages
...of meteorites moving around a bright or dark body, the maximum light occurring at periastron. " XVI. In recorded time there has been no such thing as a...of matter as large as the earth, to say nothing of matter as large as the sun ; but the known distribution of meteorites throughout space indicates that... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1888 - 586 pages
...composition, the extreme forms, iron and stony, would in time be produced as a result of collisions. XVI. In recorded time there has been no such thing as a...say nothing of masses as large as the sun ; but the known distribution of meteorites throughout space indicates that such collisions form an integral part... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1888 - 674 pages
...composition, the extreme forms, iron and stony, would in time be produced as a result of collisions. XVI. In recorded time there has been no such thing as a...matter as large as the earth, to say nothing of masses of matter as large as the sun ; but the known distribution of meteorites throughout space indicates... | |
| 1888 - 868 pages
...composition, the extreme forms, iron and stony, would in time be produced as a result of collisions. XVI. In recorded time there has been no such thing as a...matter as large as the earth, to say nothing of masses of matter as large as the sun ; but the known distribution of meteorites throughout space indicates... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1890 - 600 pages
...away from large collections of matter, which gradually reduces the complexity of chemical forms. 27. In recorded time there has been no such thing as "...collisions form an integral part of the economy of nature. Special Solar Applications. a. The view that many solar phenomena are produced by meteoritic falls... | |
| John Thornton (M.A.) - 1890 - 372 pages
...composition, the extreme forms, iron and stony, would in time be produced as a result of collisions. ' XVI. In recorded time there has been no such thing as a...matter as large as the earth, to say nothing of masses of matter as large as the sun, but the known distribution of meteorites throughout space indicates... | |
| John Ellard Gore - 1893 - 480 pages
...temperature is increasing are more numerous than those in which the temperature is being reduced. " 26. In recorded time there has been no such thing as '...collisions form an integral part of the economy of nature." The latter passage reminds us of Dr. Croll's " Impact Theory " (see chapter on " Stellar Evolution... | |
| J. Morris - 1896 - 418 pages
...of meteoric swarms; and such clashings may even form an integral part of the economy of Nature; but in recorded time there has been no such thing as "...collision of masses of matter as large as the earth. Such is the cosmogony Mr. Lockyer develops from the revelations of the spectroscope. And in connection... | |
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