Abstract
DR. JEANS'S analysis of the modes of rupture of fluid masses under the influence of excessive rotation or of the gravitation of other bodies, earned him the Adams prize of the University of Cambridge in 1917 and the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1921. The results appeared in his “Prob lems of Cosmogony and Stellar Dynamics,” published in 1919. The relation between his book and the pamphlet under review is that while the book was a theoretical work with an observational commentary, the Halley lecture is an account of observations with a theoretical commentary.
The Nebular Hypothesis and Modern Cosmogony: being the Halley Lecture delivered on May 23, 1922.
By J. H. Jeans. Pp. 31 + 4 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1923.) 2s. 6d. net.
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JEFFREYS, H. The Nebular Hypothesis and Modern Cosmogony: being the Halley Lecture delivered on May 23, 1922. Nature 111, 662–663 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111662a0
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