Caloric: Its Mechanical, Chemical, and Vital Agencies in the Phenomena of Nature,W. Pickering, 1843 - Всего страниц: 1100 |
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... which causes Evaporation ... 280-321 CHAP . II . Theory of Winds , and their connexion with Elec- trical Phenomena . Rationale of Tornadoes , Hail- storms , & c . ... 321-347 Page CHAP . III . The Barometer . - Theory.
... which causes Evaporation ... 280-321 CHAP . II . Theory of Winds , and their connexion with Elec- trical Phenomena . Rationale of Tornadoes , Hail- storms , & c . ... 321-347 Page CHAP . III . The Barometer . - Theory.
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... winds . Nor is it unworthy of passing notice ; that as the quantity of water diffused through the atmosphere is in proportion to the heating power of the sun , the barometer stands higher , on an average , within the tropics than in the ...
... winds . Nor is it unworthy of passing notice ; that as the quantity of water diffused through the atmosphere is in proportion to the heating power of the sun , the barometer stands higher , on an average , within the tropics than in the ...
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... winds , nor fluctua- tions of the barometer . But in the present order of things , not an atom of the great aerial ocean is wholly quiescent for a single moment of time . Its tropical portions being ... winds , they 20 THEORY OF WINDS .
... winds , nor fluctua- tions of the barometer . But in the present order of things , not an atom of the great aerial ocean is wholly quiescent for a single moment of time . Its tropical portions being ... winds , they 20 THEORY OF WINDS .
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... winds , they cannot be predicted with invariable accu- racy , without knowing all the circumstances which modify the temperature of different and distant places . It is not therefore surprising that meteorology has never been reduced to ...
... winds , they cannot be predicted with invariable accu- racy , without knowing all the circumstances which modify the temperature of different and distant places . It is not therefore surprising that meteorology has never been reduced to ...
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... winds , which are impeded or deflected by mountain ranges . They are also the great ter- restrial laboratories in which most of the precious gems are formed , in which carbon is liquified , and by slowly cooling under an immense ...
... winds , which are impeded or deflected by mountain ranges . They are also the great ter- restrial laboratories in which most of the precious gems are formed , in which carbon is liquified , and by slowly cooling under an immense ...
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Стр. 480 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Стр. ii - Thus calmly spake the venerable Sage, " An active Principle : — howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures ; in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters, and the invisible air.
Стр. 259 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Стр. 468 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine Sun, the Godhead, who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress towards his holy seat.
Стр. 28 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.
Стр. 20 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Стр. 508 - To every form of being is assigned An active principle, howe'er removed From sense and observation ; it subsists In all things, in all natures, in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, and every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters, and the invisible air.
Стр. 474 - The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.
Стр. 16 - I wish we could derive the rest of the phenomena of Nature by the same kind of reasoning from mechanical principles, for I am induced by many reasons to suspect that they...
Стр. 161 - And to shew that I do not take Gravity for an essential Property of Bodies, I have added one Question concerning its Cause, chusing to propose it by way of a Question, because I am not yet satisfied about it for want of Experiments.