| sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 sider
...art. 330., when the fluid from which it subsides is warm, and losing heat from its surface. (336.) 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... | |
| 1834 - 550 sider
...mitigate the extreme severity of both climates. — flerschel on Astnm. — Lard. Cyclop. SCN'S RAYS. — 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... | |
| John Lee Comstock - 1838 - 266 sider
...clouds, reflects none. How is it believed these spots are made ? INFLUENCE OF THE SUN ON THE EARTH. 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,... | |
| Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 sider
...than that our hand should communicate motion to a stone with which it is demonstrably not in contact. The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of this earth. By its heat are produced almost all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium... | |
| William Gordon - 1847 - 144 sider
...influence, as days and seasons, which are adapted to the constitution of the living creation. 395. The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. 396. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the... | |
| John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 672 sider
...in art. 386, when the fluid from which it subsides is warm, and losing heat from its surface. (399.) 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... | |
| Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1850 - 642 sider
...ignited solids appear only as black spots on the disc of the sun, when held between it and the eye 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... | |
| Samuel Elliott Coues - 1851 - 426 sider
...quote from Sir John Herschell a description of the supposed immense range of the sun's influence. " The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the globe. By its heat are produced all winds, and the disturbances which "result in the changes of the... | |
| C. B. - 1853 - 400 sider
...consequently, entitled to no credit or consideration. " The sun's rays," says Sir John Herschel, " are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By their heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere,... | |
| 1857 - 528 sider
...While upon the subject of the constitution of the Sun, he says: "The-Sun'sraysaretheultimatesources 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 eleotric equilibrium of theatmosphere... | |
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