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,... Outlines of Astronomy - Strona 211autor: John Frederick William Herschel - 1857 - Liczba stron: 573Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| John Wells Foster - 1869 - Liczba stron: 480
...organic vital activity on our planet. " By its rays," quoting the greatest of living astronomers, J " are produced all winds, and those disturbances in...electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which give rise to terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action, vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter,... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1872 - Liczba stron: 540
...paraphrase of the following passage from Sir John Herschel's "Outlines of Astronomy (1833), P- *» :" The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place upon the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced all winds and those disturbances in the electric... | |
| John Tyndall - 1870 - Liczba stron: 576
...atmosphere, the following remarkable passage was written by Sir John Herschel thirty-two years ago.* ' The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...surface of the earth. By its heat are produced all wiuds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere .which give rise to the... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1870 - Liczba stron: 600
...aware that so far back as 1833, Sir John Hcrschel had enumiati'd the doctrine that "the sun's rays arc the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth." lie expressly includes all geologic, ir.ctcorologic, and vital actions; as also those which we produce... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1871 - Liczba stron: 550
...— the first definite enunciation of this great principle. ' The Sun's rays,' he wrote in 1833, ' are the ultimate source of almost every motion which...to the phenomena of lightning, and probably also to terrestrial action and the aurora. By their vivifying action vegetables are enabled to draw support... | |
| Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - 1872 - Liczba stron: 512
...mineral veins. If by the aid of science Sir John Herschel could thirty-eight years ago, say that " the sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...motion which takes place on the surface of the earth," we may safely say to-day, that this central heat is the ultimate source of almost every motion which... | |
| Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - 1872 - Liczba stron: 516
...mineral veins. If by the aid of science Sir John Herschel could thirty-eight years ago, say that " the sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...motion which takes place on the surface of the earth," we may safely say to-day, that this central heat is the ultimate source of almost every motion which... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1872 - Liczba stron: 540
...principles upon the phenomena of vegetable life. It suggests two points of difficulty to me : — NATURE "The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place upon the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced all winds and those disturbances in the electric... | |
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - Liczba stron: 802
...force, including vitality, on the whole earth. " The sun's rays," said Sir John Herschel in 1888,* " are the ultimate source of almost every motion which...the phenomena of lightning, and probably, also, to terrestrial magnetism and the aurora. By their vivifying action vegetables are enabled to draw support... | |
| 1873 - Liczba stron: 842
...force, including vitality, on the whole earth. " The sun's rays," said Sir John Herschel in 1833,* "are the ultimate source of almost every motion which...the phenomena of lightning, and probably, also, to terrestrial magnetism and the aurora. By their vivifying action vegetables are enabled to draw support... | |
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