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A New Cosmogony. 
[April, 
VII. A NEW COSMOGONY. 
i he celebrated hypothesis of La Piace^ 
been first generally execiated UI fte ri n- opposition of a 
^ versally accepted, is i now ^ account for faCts as 
sober and substantial km . Hence a new hypo- 
thec now are known to astionom a one has been 
[SMd b"T Fa y e a ,ldhas bef/laid before the world rn 
a recent issue of ‘ L Astronomie. ^ the case W1 H be 
necessary fc^-lding of the basis of the new 
hy fche aspea of the " ^1^^ £l« 
the planets gives us the slight . corre P ftly we must in 
System. In ordei o un withdraw to such a distance 
thought leave our world ’ take j n the little system 
the^entre o'f wWch is" occupied by so ordinary a star as our 
SU Round the Sun 
eight primary planets. Of tn . P which represent 
-i.e.; they are the “ntres of small ^ ^ ^ 
the Solar System on a reduced seal . Saturn 8, 
one satellite (the Moon) Mats has planet hithert0 
Uranus 4, and Neptune ( • our 0 v.n system 
known) 1. A striking p l g°. • f . om r jght to left ; that 
is, that the Sun revolves on its axis diom ^ direc . 
all the planets, without except > _ that> name ly, of the 
tion and almost in t that they describe almost 
of the rotation of the Sun , ana mai 1 
circular orbits. , • , t these bodies are ani- 
Might it not almost be c . an d that the secondary 
mated by one great vortex moveme^ K ,&c., are smaller 
systems of the Eait l, n vort ’ e x ^ Such was, indeed, the 
vortices moving in the 1 m ‘ So i a r System generates 
view of Descartes A 1 hougl U ori gi na lly formed by a 
vm ucal e movement in' the ^nebula fronPwhich it has been 
f ° The' heavens « " 
mf^s^of'oh^os whicYhave "undergone only the degree oi 
