Outlines of modern Christianity and modern science . tion for the Advancement of Sci-ence, propounded at the sixty-fourth annual meetingof that body:— If the earth is a detached bit, whirled off the massof the sun, how comes it that, in leaving him, wecleaned him out so completely of his nitrogen andoxygen that not a trace of these gases remains to bediscovered, even by the sensitive vision of the spec-troscope? Every comet, too, that shows its nose inside oursolar system laughs at the nebular hypothesis; andnow and then, for a change, away outside our sys-tem, we have fixed stars blazing up s
Outlines of modern Christianity and modern science . tion for the Advancement of Sci-ence, propounded at the sixty-fourth annual meetingof that body:— If the earth is a detached bit, whirled off the massof the sun, how comes it that, in leaving him, wecleaned him out so completely of his nitrogen andoxygen that not a trace of these gases remains to bediscovered, even by the sensitive vision of the spec-troscope? Every comet, too, that shows its nose inside oursolar system laughs at the nebular hypothesis; andnow and then, for a change, away outside our sys-tem, we have fixed stars blazing up suddenly anddisappearing to the naked eye, like the late Nova16 in 16 More recently this interesting star has put in a thunderingrejoinder to the arguments of the nebulists by positively reversingtheir theory right before their eyes, i. e., changing from an ordi-nary star into a true nebula. And instead of requiring millionsof ages for the work, the change only occupied a few faces the scientific world as a tremendous mystery. Prof. WSMBk. Nebulosity about Nova Persei, Sept. 20, 1901. From a photograph by W. Ritchey with the two-foot reflecting telescope of the Yerkes three hours fifty minutes. Kindness of the Scientific American.
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