There is evidence that the nebular hypothesis was first proposed in 1734 by Emanuel Swedenborg.
The currently accepted scientific explanation for the origin of the solar system is based on the nebular hypothesis.
According to the nebular hypothesis, the outer two planets are in the "wrong place".
The most important were on comets (1860) and the nebular hypothesis itself (1873).
While the broad picture of the nebular hypothesis is widely accepted, many of the details are not well understood and continue to be refined.
The book begins by tackling the origins of the solar system, using the nebular hypothesis to explain its formations entirely in terms of natural law.
In particular, creationists dispute the widely accepted nebular hypothesis for star formation.
It was proposed as a replacement for the Laplacian version of the nebular hypothesis that had prevailed since the 19th century.
The nebular hypothesis of solar system formation describes how protoplanetary disks are thought to evolve into planetary systems.
Most notably, he propounds the modern nebular hypothesis, independently outlined by Kant.