 The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of lightning,...  Light - Strona 192autor: Forbes Benignus Winslow - 1868 - Liczba stron: 200Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - Liczba stron: 500
...art. 330., when the fluid from which it subsides is warm, and losing heat from its surface. (336.) The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter, and... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - Liczba stron: 444
...losing heat from its surface. (336.) The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every m otion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By...the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter, and... | |
 | 1834 - Liczba stron: 550
...mitigate the extreme severity of both climates. — flerschel on Astnm. — Lard. Cyclop. SCN'S RAYS. — The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action, vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter,... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1838 - Liczba stron: 266
...clouds, reflects none. How is it believed these spots are made ? INFLUENCE OF THE SUN ON THE EARTH. The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...the atmosphere, which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action, vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter,... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1838 - Liczba stron: 268
...penumbra, while the solid body, shaded by the clouds, reflects none. INFLUENCE OF THE SUN ON THE EARTH. The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...produced all winds, and those disturbances in the ebctric equilibrium of the atmosphere, which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - Liczba stron: 566
...than that our hand should communicate motion to a stone with which it is demonstrably not in contact. The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of this earth. By its heat are produced almost all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium... | |
 | William Gordon - 1847 - Liczba stron: 144
...influence, as days and seasons, which are adapted to the constitution of the living creation. 395. The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. 396. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the... | |
 | Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1850 - Liczba stron: 642
...ignited solids appear only as black spots on the disc of the sun, when held between it and the eye The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter, and... | |
 | Samuel Elliott Coues - 1851 - Liczba stron: 426
...quote from Sir John Herschell a description of the supposed immense range of the sun's influence. " The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the globe. By its heat are produced all winds, and the disturbances which "result in the changes of the... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1853 - Liczba stron: 608
...in art. 387, when the fluid from which it subsides is warm, and losing heat from its surface. (399.) The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmoMihcre which give rise to the phenomena of lightning, and probably also to those of terrestrial... | |
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