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... by as much as 1-300th of a second of time ; that is to say by about a twenty - five millionth of its own amount in the last 2,000 years . " The that the moon's mean angular motion has been accelerated ON GEOLOGICAL TIME . 37.
... by as much as 1-300th of a second of time ; that is to say by about a twenty - five millionth of its own amount in the last 2,000 years . " The that the moon's mean angular motion has been accelerated ON GEOLOGICAL TIME . 37.
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... mean motion . He calculated out the results of this discovery , and they seemed to tally precisely with the supposition that the earth's velocity of rotation had been con- stant since 721 B.C. ; 2 but in 1853 our great English physical ...
... mean motion . He calculated out the results of this discovery , and they seemed to tally precisely with the supposition that the earth's velocity of rotation had been con- stant since 721 B.C. ; 2 but in 1853 our great English physical ...
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... mean motion , Adams , in an estimate which he has recently worked out in conjunction with Professor Tait and myself , found , on a certain assumption as to the propor- tion of retardations due to the moon and the sun- that 22 seconds of ...
... mean motion , Adams , in an estimate which he has recently worked out in conjunction with Professor Tait and myself , found , on a certain assumption as to the propor- tion of retardations due to the moon and the sun- that 22 seconds of ...
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... means for regu- lating our clocks . Failing a good clock to check the earth by , we have to take the best we can find and apply corrections to it . The moon is a very unequal time - keeper , but by prodigious labour , carried out by ...
... means for regu- lating our clocks . Failing a good clock to check the earth by , we have to take the best we can find and apply corrections to it . The moon is a very unequal time - keeper , but by prodigious labour , carried out by ...
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... means for ascer- taining its indications , draw it up , and you have the measure of the temperature at each depth . There are most abundant opportunities for geo- thermic surveys in this locality by the numerous bores made with a view ...
... means for ascer- taining its indications , draw it up , and you have the measure of the temperature at each depth . There are most abundant opportunities for geo- thermic surveys in this locality by the numerous bores made with a view ...
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Popular Lectures and Addresses: Geology and general physics William Thomson Baron Kelvin Полный просмотр - 1894 |
Popular Lectures and Addresses: Geology and general physics William Thomson Baron Kelvin Полный просмотр - 1894 |
Popular Lectures and Addresses: Geology and general physics William Thomson Baron Kelvin Полный просмотр - 1894 |
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Стр. 538 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Стр. 156 - Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
Стр. 83 - It seems, therefore, on the whole most probable that the sun has not illuminated the earth for 100,000,000 years, and almost certain that he has not done so for 500,000,000 years. As for the future, we may say, with equal certainty, that inhabitants of the earth cannot continue to enjoy the light and heat essential to their life, for many million years longer, unless sources now unknown to us are prepared in the great storehouse of creation.
Стр. 200 - ... ripe beauty, by a fiat of Creative Power ? or did vegetation, growing up from seed sown, spread and multiply over the whole Earth...
Стр. 102 - Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness ; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.
Стр. 203 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Стр. 204 - Laputan method of making books, and that it did not sufficiently take into account a continually guiding and controlling intelligence. This seems to me a most valuable and instructive criticism. I feel profoundly convinced that the argument of design has been greatly too much lost sight of in recent zoological speculations. Reaction against the frivolities of teleology, such as are to be found, not rarely, in the notes of the learned commentators on Paley's
Стр. 462 - It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency to derive mechanical effect from any portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects.
Стр. 517 - A sudden outburst of light, far exceeding the brightness of the sun's surface, was seen to take place, and sweep like a drifting cloud over a portion of the solar face. This was attended with magnetic disturbances of unusual intensity, and with exhibitions of aurora of extraordinary brilliancy. The identical instant at which the effusion of light was observed was recorded by an abrupt and strongly-marked deflection in the self-registering instruments at Kew.