 | 1858 - 588 pages
...density of the mass of our planetarysystem be calculated, according to the assumption in question, for the time when it was a nebulous sphere, which reached to the path of the outmost planet, it would be found to require several cubic miles of such matter to weigh a single grain. HORSE TAMING.... | |
 | Helmholtz - 1873 - 452 pages
...happens with the shooting stars and meteoric stones which come within the range of our atmosphere. If we calculate the density of the mass of our planetary...nebulous sphere, which reached to the path of the outermost planet, we should find that it would require several millions of cubic miles of such matter... | |
 | Hermann Ludwig F. von Helmholtz - 1873 - 424 pages
...happens with the shooting stars and meteoric stones which come within the range of our atmosphere. If we calculate the density of the mass of our planetary...nebulous sphere, which reached to the path of the outermost planet, we should find that it would require several millions of cubic miles of such matter... | |
 | Hermann von Helmholtz - 1873 - 432 pages
...happens with the shooting stars and meteoric stones which come within the range of our atmosphere. If we calculate the density of the mass of our planetary...it was a nebulous sphere, which reached to the path Y of the outermost planet, we should find that it would require several millions of cubic miles of... | |
 | James Thomas Whittaker - 1879 - 318 pages
...substance, which is so thin that the light of the stars passes through it undiminished and unbent. If we calculate the density of the mass of our planetary system at the time when it was a nebulous sphere, reaching out to the path of the outmost planet, we find... | |
 | Henry Augustus Mott - 1882 - 42 pages
...case, it would be more than three thousand times this amount, or equal to 29,000,000° Cent, of heat. If we calculate the density of the mass of our planetary system according to the assumption that it was once a nebulous mass extending to the orbital path of the outermost planet,... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1888 - 302 pages
...no conception of the extreme rarefaction of the primitive atoms. Upon this Helmholtz remarks that ' if we calculate the density of the mass of our planetary system at the time when it was a nebulous sphere which reached to the path of the outermost planet, we should... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 494 pages
...substance, which is so thin that the light of the stars passes through it unenfeebled and unrefracted. If we calculate the density of the mass of our planetary...would require several cubic miles of such matter to weight a single grain. The general attractive force of all matter must, however, impel these masses... | |
 | 1877 - 776 pages
...density of a nebula consisting of the matter of the solar system, and filling the orbit of Neptune. " It would require several cubic miles of such matter to weigh a single grain." We can also determine the pressure exerted by gravity at the surface of such a nebula. Having the pressure... | |
 | 1891 - 588 pages
...474. t Ibid., p. 465. treme rarefaction of the primitive atoms. Upon this Helmholtz remarks that ' if we calculate the density of the mass of our planetary system at the time when it was a nebulous sphere which reached to the path of the outermost planet, we should... | |
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... planet, we should find that it would require several cubic miles of such matter to weigh a single grain. The general attractive force of all matter must, however, impel these masses to approach each other, and to condense, so that the nebulous sphere... 
