 | William J. Cassidy - Creation - 1887 - 392 pages
...their orbits are figured under the form of material rings," according to D' Arrest, " these rings will be found so entangled that it would be possible by means of one among them, taken at hazard, to lift up all the rest." The discovery of the principal of the minor planets arose from a... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - Astronomical instruments - 1889 - 758 pages
...planets ; it is, that, if their orbits are figured under the form of material rings, these rings will be found so entangled, that it would be possible, by means of one among them taken at hazard, to lift up all the rest." The circumstances which led originally to a search for planetary... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1891 - 514 pages
...by D' Arrest, that " if their orbits are figured under the form of material rings, these rings will be found so entangled, that it would be possible, by means of one among them taken at hazard, to lift up all the rest," — a fact incongruous with Laplace's hypothesis, which implies an... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1891 - 494 pages
...by D' Arrest, that " if their orbits are figured under the form of material rings, these rings will be found so entangled, that it would be possible, by means of one among them taken at hazard, to lift up all the rest," — a fact incongruous with Laplace's hypothesis, which implies an... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1910 - 496 pages
...by D' Arrest, that " if their orbits are figured under the form of material rings, these rings will be found so entangled, that it would be possible, by means of one among them taken at hazard, to lift up all the rest," — a fact incongruous with Laplace's hypothesis, which implies an... | |
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seems above all to confirm the idea of an intimate relation between all the minor planets; it is, that, if their orbits are figured under the form of material rings, these rings will be found so entangled, that it would be possible, by means of one among... 
