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Author(s): John Pringle Nichol
ISBN(s): 9781108005265, 1108005268
Edition: 1
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Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1108005268 
ISBN 13: 9781108005265
Author: John Pringle Nichol

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.

Views of the Architecture of the Heavens In a Series of Letters to a Lady 1st Table of contents:

Part I: The Form of the Existing Universe

  • Letter I: General Considerations on the System of the Universe – Shape of Our Firmament

  • Letter II: The Power and Reach of Telescopes

  • Letter III: Aspects, Forms, and Distances of Remote Firmaments

Part II: The Constituent Mechanisms, or the Principle of the Vitality of Stellar Arrangements

  • Letter IV: Probable Universality of Planetary Systems – Relationships Among Stars; Double Stars

  • Letter V: Triple Stars – More Complex Relationships; Existence of Large Star Groups; Conjectures Regarding Stellar Systems

Part III: The Origin and Probable Destiny of the Present Form of the Material Creation

  • Letter VI: The Nebulae

  • Letter VII: The Nebular Hypothesis

  • Letter VIII: Speculations

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