The birth of worlds and systems

A. W. (Alexander William) Bickerton

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•of CaliforniaUniversity Berkeley Gift of LAFLERJOANNE GEORGE I STERLINGJ acnirfAuenil» 3^ ofAtomic9. Diagram Velocity 41 of10. Atomic KinetolDiagram 41 11. ofshaded Blaze Bands . .Diagram facing 36 12. of Comet's Orbit ...Diagram ,,62 the Formation of the Orbit13. of aDiagram showing Double Star ....... 67 of14. thatDiagram illustrating Changes Velocity may occur when three Stars near one another .pass 70 of the Orbit of a Planet .... loi15. Diagram 16. A cut in Canes Venatici . 62clearly Spiral facing THE BIRTH OF WORLDS AND SYSTEMS CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY SKETCH OF PARTIAL IMPACT TN I had1878 been adevoting good deal of1 time to the ofstudy heat, ceespecSly estk thermodynamics, and was struck with the ingu arly insufficient suggestions made to accountfor the amazing phenomena known as temporal stars, apparitions that blaze forth in the SenYthat ingrow untilmtensity are oftenthey sSresof thousands of times the ofbrilliancy our Sun '-'' ""^^ ''-'-'^^ tolh^keTer^ I had studied under Tyndall, and his lecturesand books had made the ofthought the amazTngstoie of m theenergy Sun very famihar to meI knew that no oftheory combustion couldaccount for his stupendous energy; much lesswould It account for the suddefman^stationof many thousands of times the Sun'sTtenXHence it follows that the suggestion, thaTthe B - BIRTH OF WORLDS AND SYSTEMS was an outburst ofphenomenon burning hydrogen, was had hispuerile.

Sujets

• Stars
• Cosmogony

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 12
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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•of CaliforniaUniversity Berkeley
Gift of
LAFLERJOANNE
GEORGE I
STERLINGJ
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—Fig. 2. Pair of inStars Impact.
—Fig. Stars Passing out of and Formation ofImpact,3.
Third Body.
— in each Body.Fig. Showing Entanglement of Matter4.
Fig. Two Variables and a Temporary Star.5.—
Frontispiece.THE BIRTH
OF
WORLDS AND
SYSTEMS
BY
PROFESSOR
A. W. BICKERTON
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