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" It is, therefore, partly to this cause, and partly to those we have developed above, that the slight deviations we now perceive must be attributed. " Such is a summary of the hypothesis of La Place on the origin of the solar system. This hypothesis explains,... "
The Elements of Astronomy: Or, The World as it Is, and as it Appears - Page 131
by Anna Cabot Lowell - 1850 - 376 pages
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Book IV. Of the theory of universal gravitation. Book V. Abridgment of the ...

Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace - 1809 - 406 pages
...the primitive motions of the planets, we have given the five following phenomena: 1st, The motions of planets in the same direction, and nearly in the same plane. 2d, The motion of their satellites in the same "direction, and nearly in the same plane with those of the planets. 3d,...
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The Gallery of Nature and Art; Or, A Tour Through Creation and Science, Volume 1

Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 568 pages
...primitive motions of the planets, we have given the five following pliaenoniena : 1st, The motions of planets in the same direction, and nearly in the same plane. 2d, The motion of their satellites in the same direction, and nearly in the same plane with those of the planets. 3d,...
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Popular Astronomy, And, The Orbs of Heaven

Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1860 - 698 pages
...slight deviations we now perceive must be attributed. " Such is a summary of the hypothesis of La Place on the origin of the solar system. This hypothesis...the same direction, and nearly in the same plane. " 2nd. The motion of the satellites in the same direction as their planets. " 3rd. The singular coincidence...
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Popular Astronomy: A Concise Elementary Treatise on the Sun, Planets ...

Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1860 - 396 pages
...slight deviations we now perceive must be attributed, " Such is a summary of the hypothesis of La Place on the origin of the solar system. This hypothesis...the same direction, and nearly in the same plane. i{ 2(1 The motion of the satellites in the same direction as their planets. i; M. The singular coincidence...
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The Origin of the Stars: And the Causes of Their Motions and Their Light

Jacob Ennis - 1867 - 420 pages
...the primitive motions of the planets, we have given the five following phenomena : 1st. The motions of the planets in the same direction, and nearly in the same plane. 3d. The motion of their satellites in the same direction, and nearly in the same plane with those of...
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The Sidereal Messenger: A Monthly Review of Astronomy, Volume 7

1888 - 486 pages
...motions of the planetary system, we have, says La Place, the five following phenomena : (1) The motions of the planets in the same direction, and nearly in the same plane ; (2) The motions of the satellites in the same direction as those of the planets; (3) The rotations...
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Miscellaneous Notes and Queries, Volume 14

1896 - 410 pages
...of the primitive motion of the planets, we have given the five following phenomena : 1. The motions of the planets in the same direction, and nearly in the same plane. 2. The motion of the satellites in the same direction, and nearly in the same plane with those of the...
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