Researches On The Evolution Of The Stellar Systems On The Universality Of The Law Of Gravitation And On The Orbits And General Characteristics Of Binary Stars PDF Download

Excerpt from Researches on the Evolution of the Stellar Systems, Vol. 1: On the Universality of the Law of Gravitation and on the Orbits and General Characteristics of Binary Stars Laplace observed that the comets, unlike the planets and satellites, have every degree of inclination and very high eccentricities, and hence he concluded that they were originally foreign to the solar system; accordingly, in the nebular hypothesis, the comets are regarded as small nebulae which have been drawn to the sun in its secular motion among the fixed stars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.