Views of the Architecture of the Heavens : In a Series of Letters to a Lady (Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy)

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Views of the Architecture of the Heavens : In a Series of Letters to a Lady (Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy)

Nichol, John Pringle

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Cambridge University Press（2009/07発売）
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製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 284 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9781108005265
DDC分類 523.1

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John Pringle Nichol (1804-59) was a Scottish polymath whose major interests were economics and astronomy; he did much to popularise the latter by his writings. He became Regius Professor of Astronomy at Glasgow in 1836, and in the following year published Views of the Architecture of the Heavens which was immediately successful. George Eliot wrote in a letter of 1841, 'I have been revelling in Nichol's Architecture of the Heavens and Phenomena of the Solar System, and have been in imagination winging my flight from system to system, and from universe to universe ...' Nichol was a supporter of the nebular hypothesis - that stars form in massive and dense clouds of molecular hydrogen which are gravitationally unstable, and coalesce to smaller denser clumps, which then collapse and form stars - which in modified form is the model most widely accepted today.

Part I. The Form of the Existing Universe: Letter 1. General considerations on the system of the universe; Letter 2. The power and reach of telescopes; Letter 3. Aspects, forms and distances of remote firmaments; Part II. The Constituent Mechanisms, or the Principle of the Vitality of Stellar Arrangements: Letter 4. Probable universality of planetary systems; Letter 5. Triple stars; Part III. The Origin and Probable Destiny of the Present Form of the Material Creation; Letter 6. The nebulae; Letter 7. The nebular hypothesis; Letter 8. Speculation; Notes; Additions and corrections.