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... round the sun may go on increasing . It might be supposed that that eccentricity could go on increasing so much , that at last the earth's path might cross that of one of the other planets . Serious disturbances in the motions of the ...
... round the sun may go on increasing . It might be supposed that that eccentricity could go on increasing so much , that at last the earth's path might cross that of one of the other planets . Serious disturbances in the motions of the ...
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... round the earth , were zero , there would be no rise and fall of water in lunar tides ; the earth would always turn the same face to the moon , and then it would be always high water towards the moon , low water in the intermediate ...
... round the earth , were zero , there would be no rise and fall of water in lunar tides ; the earth would always turn the same face to the moon , and then it would be always high water towards the moon , low water in the intermediate ...
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... round the earth . 8. " The tidal spheroid , " you must understand , is not a reality , because the waters do not cover the whole earth , as we are here on terra firma to know . But there is a perfectly definite surface , being an ...
... round the earth . 8. " The tidal spheroid , " you must understand , is not a reality , because the waters do not cover the whole earth , as we are here on terra firma to know . But there is a perfectly definite surface , being an ...
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... round the earth's centre , each in the direction opposite to the motion of the hands of a watch . If there were no tidal friction , OMS would be in one straight line , and HH ' , the longest axis of the tidal spheroid would be ...
... round the earth's centre , each in the direction opposite to the motion of the hands of a watch . If there were no tidal friction , OMS would be in one straight line , and HH ' , the longest axis of the tidal spheroid would be ...
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... of the moon on these two halves will not balance round the centre of gravity of the whole , but that , on the con- 1 See footnote on $ 9 . trary , the combined influence of the greater attraction the 28 POPULAR LECTURES AND ADDRESSES .
... of the moon on these two halves will not balance round the centre of gravity of the whole , but that , on the con- 1 See footnote on $ 9 . trary , the combined influence of the greater attraction the 28 POPULAR LECTURES AND ADDRESSES .
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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.