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Illustration showing the formation of the solar system according to Pierre Simon Laplace’s nebular hypothesis. A black and white drawing of two circles made up of white dots against a black background, one containing concentric circles of denser dots.

Lord Kelvin and the Apocalypse: the striking convergence of religion and cosmology

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