Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, Том 13Victoria Institute., 1880 |
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... mean simply the central forces , the attractions and repulsions , varying by certain laws of distance , of all the bodies or their component atoms that now exist ? If so , the doctrine becomes only a sort of truism . The sudden bursting ...
... mean simply the central forces , the attractions and repulsions , varying by certain laws of distance , of all the bodies or their component atoms that now exist ? If so , the doctrine becomes only a sort of truism . The sudden bursting ...
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... mean share in its confirmation . Hence the conditions of the problem of conduction , for long periods , must be wholly altered . There is no longer a fixed amount of heat , of which a small part is transferred by a definite law from a ...
... mean share in its confirmation . Hence the conditions of the problem of conduction , for long periods , must be wholly altered . There is no longer a fixed amount of heat , of which a small part is transferred by a definite law from a ...
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... mean tempera- ture would be raised if the land were mainly in the torrid zone , and be lowered if it were grouped around the poles . Mr. Croll argues that the effect would be diametrically opposite , and that the contour of the surface ...
... mean tempera- ture would be raised if the land were mainly in the torrid zone , and be lowered if it were grouped around the poles . Mr. Croll argues that the effect would be diametrically opposite , and that the contour of the surface ...
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... mean amount will be , in Mr. Croll's mode of reckoning , about 27 billions of billions of foot pounds . This agrees ill with the hypothesis that the period is one marked by extreme and excessive cold . 29. A third and more decisive ...
... mean amount will be , in Mr. Croll's mode of reckoning , about 27 billions of billions of foot pounds . This agrees ill with the hypothesis that the period is one marked by extreme and excessive cold . 29. A third and more decisive ...
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... mean value . Thus the period selected as the Ice Age is one in which the northern hemisphere receives from the sun an amount of heat exceeding by almost 3 per cent . its mean value , and greater than at any other period in the long ...
... mean value . Thus the period selected as the Ice Age is one in which the northern hemisphere receives from the sun an amount of heat exceeding by almost 3 per cent . its mean value , and greater than at any other period in the long ...
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