Ever since man perceived that the solar system is a cohort of planets revolving around a central sun, at different distances but in the same direction and in almost the same plane, he has wondered how ...

In the past, we have covered various scientists and their contributions to their respective professions, but we’ve never touched based on professors of philosophy. Not until now, that is. Immanuel ...

The solar system is approximately 4.6 billion years old, a determination made primarily through the radiometric dating of ancient meteorites, which provide a more pristine record than Earth rocks. Its ...

DR. JEANS'S analysis of the modes of rupture of fluid masses under the influence of excessive rotation or of the gravitation of other bodies, earned him the Adams prize of the University of Cambridge ...

THE literature of geology has grown so immense that no man can be familiar with all of it, particularly when it refers to another continent than one's own, yet it comes as a surprise to a Canadian to ...

More than 200 years since Immanuel Kant and Pierre Simon Laplace first put forward the nebular hypothesis—which holds that our solar system evolved from a cloud of matter rotating around the ...

In the 19th century, astronomers believed that solar systems formed in nebular clouds throughout the universe. But 20th century scientists rejected that idea, arguing that our solar system was an ...

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