Climate: An Inquiry Into the Causes of Its Differences, and Into Its Influence on Vegetable Life : Comprising the Substance of Four Lectures Delivered Before the Natural History Society, at the Museum, Torquay, in February, 1863, Opseg 2John Henry and James Parker, 1863 - Broj stranica: 144 |
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... hence we find Ignoramuses , who figure in print under the sobriquets of Zadkiel , or Thomas Moore , Physician , predicting the weather for a year to come with the most entire confidence , whilst an Herschel or an Arago declare ...
... hence we find Ignoramuses , who figure in print under the sobriquets of Zadkiel , or Thomas Moore , Physician , predicting the weather for a year to come with the most entire confidence , whilst an Herschel or an Arago declare ...
Stranica 3
... hence we can perceive no greater inconsistency , when the devout philosopher , after praying for fine weather , speculates upon the meteorological changes which may cause the sun to come out , or the rain to fall , than when a pious ...
... hence we can perceive no greater inconsistency , when the devout philosopher , after praying for fine weather , speculates upon the meteorological changes which may cause the sun to come out , or the rain to fall , than when a pious ...
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... hence , in spite of the authority of Arago , and the plausible explanation of the spots in the sun which his hypothesis affords , it may be inferred , that the surface of a body contiguous , as the orb of the sun is , to a photo- sphere ...
... hence , in spite of the authority of Arago , and the plausible explanation of the spots in the sun which his hypothesis affords , it may be inferred , that the surface of a body contiguous , as the orb of the sun is , to a photo- sphere ...
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... its orb , any yellow light present in it will be cut off , if sodium be present in a volatile condition in the medium which it traverses , and hence a dark streak will result , ex- 10 Metals present in the Sun's Orb . [ LECT.
... its orb , any yellow light present in it will be cut off , if sodium be present in a volatile condition in the medium which it traverses , and hence a dark streak will result , ex- 10 Metals present in the Sun's Orb . [ LECT.
Stranica 10
... Hence the existence in the solar spectrum of a dark line , exactly corresponding in point of position with the yellow sodium band , is regarded as an evidence that this metal exists in the solar orb , as well as in the photosphere ...
... Hence the existence in the solar spectrum of a dark line , exactly corresponding in point of position with the yellow sodium band , is regarded as an evidence that this metal exists in the solar orb , as well as in the photosphere ...
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