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IT is with mingled feelings that, after reading through this immense volume of Dr. See's, the reviewer attempts to present it fairly to the readers of this journal. This book and the theory presented therein is “the culmination of continued labor extending over more than a quarter of a century.” It calls therefore for a full and careful discussion. It is a great pity that the writer over and over again by loose dogmatic statements repels the critic, and that he so frequently makes claims as to the rigorous-ness of the methods he employs, claims which a careful examination quite fails to endorse. As an example of the former fault we choose the extraordinary statement on p. 152, which comes at the end of an account of some quite inconclusive mathematical work on the effect of a resisting medium. The italics are the author's.
Researches on the Evolution of the Stellar Systems.
By Prof. T. J. J. Vol. ii., The Capture Theory of Cosmical Evolution, founded on Dynamical Principles and Illustrated by Phenomena Observed in the Spiral Nebul, the Planetary System, the Double and Multiple Stars and Clusters, and the Star-clouds of the Milky Way. Pp. viii + 734. (Lynn, Mass.: T. P. Nichols and Sons; London: W. Wesley and Son, 1910.)
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Researches on the Evolution of the Stellar Systems . Nature 87, 275 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087275a0
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