 | 1897 - 918 pages
...succession any distinct steps In so august a process, the probability is indeed overwhelming in favor of an evolution in the past, and still going on, of...heavens. There remained no room for doubt that the nebulae, which our telescopes reveal to us, are the early stages of long processions of cosmical events,... | |
 | 1900 - 600 pages
...was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the light itself, read: Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas. Stars after the order of our own...heavens. There remained no room for doubt that the nebulae, which our telescopes reveal to us, are the early stages of long processions of cosmical events,... | |
 | 1902 - 230 pages
...past, and still going on, of the heavenly hosts. A time surely existed when the matter now condensed 97 into the sun and planets filled the whole space occupied...in the condition of gas , which then appeared as a glowingnebula, after the order, it may be, of some now existing in the heavens. There remained no room... | |
 | William Marshall Watts - 1904 - 414 pages
...too minute relatively to cosmical events for us to expect to see in succession any distinct steps of so august a process, the probability is indeed overwhelming...heavens. There remained no room for doubt that the nebulae, which our telescopes reveal to us, are the early stages of long processions of cosmical events,... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1909 - 614 pages
...succession any distinct step in so august a process, the probability is indeed overwhelming in favor of an evolution in the past, and still going on, of...heavens. There remained no room for doubt that the nebulae, which our telescopes revealed to us, are the early stages of long processions of cosmical... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1910 - 316 pages
...succession any distinct step in so august a process, the probability is indeed overwhelming in favor of an evolution in the past, and still going on, of...existed when the matter now condensed into the Sun and planet? filled the whole space occupied by the solar system, in the condition of gas, which then appeared... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 846 pages
...succession any distinct step In so august a process, the probability is, Indeed, overwhelming in favor of an evolution in the past, and still going on, of...heavens. There remained no room for doubt that the nebulte, which our telescopes revealed to us, are the early stages of long processions of cosmical... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 850 pages
...succession any distinct step in so august a process, the probability is, indeed, overwhelming in favor of an evolution in the past, and still going on, of...occupied by the solar system, in the condition of gns, which then appeared as a glowing nebula, after the order, it may be, of some now existing in the... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 848 pages
...succession any distinct step in so august a process, the probability is, indeed, overwhelming in favor of an evolution in the past, and still going on, of...filled the whole space occupied by the solar system, ln the condition of gas, which then appeared as a glowing nebula, after the order, it may be, of some... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 pages
...was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the light itself, read : Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas. Stars after the order of our own...heavens. There remained no room for doubt that the nebulae, which our telescopes reveal to us, are the early stages of long processions of cosmical events,... | |
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... order quite different from that of the stars. Further observations soon convinced me that, though the short span of human life is far too minute relatively to cosmical events for us to expect to see in succession any distinct steps in so august a... 
