MODERN COSMOGONIES

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This volume contains a series of brief and attractive studies on current theories regarding the origin and history of the visible universe. The difficulties besetting cosmical doctrines of evolution are pointed out in them, and the expedients are described by which those difficulties have been met, though not wholly overcome. The widened possibilities connected with the new science of radiology, the unification of the physical forces that may ensue upon further discoveries concerning electrical action, the function in the world of the impalpable ether, the nature of gravity, are in turn discussed or adverted to; while the final chapter takes into consideration the crowning problem of life.

"These sixteen chapters are short studies on modern theories about the origin and mystery of the universe, by an astronomer whose writings have done much to help and popularise that science."—The Times.

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ADAM & CHARLES BLACK . SOHO SQUARE . LONDON

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072 13 The search for it, through confessedly scarcely
196 24 The first description are tranquil
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009 11 byeways byways
024 46 concentation concentration
043 37 Is appears from It appears from
062 37 appearances seem by him appearances seen by him
082 3 forgotton forgotten
092 footnote 1 11/9647000 1/9647000 (confirmed by looking up reference quoted)
093 7 phenenoma phenomena
100 17 Bredikhin Brédikhine
131 13 identifiying identifying
140 40 terrestial terrestrial
143 25 appearence appearance
149 27 bloodvessel blood vessel
152 12 Angström Ångström
169 3 undimished undiminished
171 42 sympton symptom
172 18 familar familiar
173 42 photograpic photographic
182 37 by which i structure by which its structure
199 37 Bredikhine Brédikhine
220 26 stata strata
246 30-31 of its orbit 24 hours 53 seconds. of its orbit in 24 hours 53 seconds
260 13 garden at its seasons garden as its seasons
284 21 throngh through
284 13 oparator operator
376 42 promptly recognised. in a promptly recognised in a
377 footnote 3applie applied
395 42 the gaseous fields o the gaseous fields of
423 35 relatiouship relationship
434 footnote 2Optice Optics
436 42 Its resumption, ofter some years Its resumption, after some years
436 footnote 1(two references given, within a single footnote. In the text footnote 1 used twice)(split into two footnotes, and corrected references in the text)
450 27 1862 Conclusion of a 1872 Conclusion of a
454 40 spectographically spectrographically
454 18 spectographic spectrographic
456 4 Lyrae Lyræ
488 index Wolf, R., sun-spot and magnetic periodicity, 128, 164, 162;Wolf, R., sun-spot and magnetic periodicity, 128, 162, 163;