Abstract
THE object of this book is “not to propound any new but simply to explain and discuss theories which have been supported by well-known and other men of science” as to the “evolution of the Solar System,” and to give a popular account of the “construction of the Universe as we see it, and its probable development from pre-existent matter,” Mr. Gore has alre idy acquired considerable success as a popular writer on astronomical subjects, and the scheme of the present volume is, as we might expect, a very good one. The Iirst three chipters are devoted to a popular of the hypotheses of Kant and Laplace, the principtl objections that have been urged against tnem, and the modifications and additions suggested by recent research. In S ibsequent chtpters such subjects as the fuel ofthe sun, the luininiferous ether, the constitution ofmatter, celestial chemistry, arid the meteoritic hypothesis are dealt with. Mr. Gore then reaches the purely descriptive portion of his subject, and gives excellent chapters on the Milky Way, and on "the latest results respecting the distribution of stars and nebuLe and their relative motions."
The Visible Universe.
By J. Ellard Gore (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1893)
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TAYLOR, A. Gore's “Visible Universe“. Nature 47, 193–195 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/047193a0
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