The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Том 9James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1870 |
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... feet above the sea . The elevation of the upper clouds , which were apparently so effectually acted on , we had no means of accurately judging of ; but I should suspect that it could not have been less than 15,000 feet . ” Now , Buys ...
... feet above the sea . The elevation of the upper clouds , which were apparently so effectually acted on , we had no means of accurately judging of ; but I should suspect that it could not have been less than 15,000 feet . ” Now , Buys ...
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... feet removed from it . Having refuted the common opinion that luminous phosphorus exhibited the phenomenon of light without heat , Melloni sought to disprove the similar idea sometimes entertained with regard to the light of the moon ...
... feet removed from it . Having refuted the common opinion that luminous phosphorus exhibited the phenomenon of light without heat , Melloni sought to disprove the similar idea sometimes entertained with regard to the light of the moon ...
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... feet . Professor Smyth did not ascertain what this would be in terms of a recognised scale ; but M. Marié - Davy has since done so , using , however , not the mean of the two nights ' observa- tions , but that given by the first night's ...
... feet . Professor Smyth did not ascertain what this would be in terms of a recognised scale ; but M. Marié - Davy has since done so , using , however , not the mean of the two nights ' observa- tions , but that given by the first night's ...
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... feet in thickness , and in southern Russia it is as much as 600 feet . Throughout this wide space it retains its essential character as a rock , and cannot readily be mistaken 60 17 22 24 19 17 5 2 27 Chart 24 POPULAR SCIENCE REVIEW .
... feet in thickness , and in southern Russia it is as much as 600 feet . Throughout this wide space it retains its essential character as a rock , and cannot readily be mistaken 60 17 22 24 19 17 5 2 27 Chart 24 POPULAR SCIENCE REVIEW .
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... feet of water , but this has now become an ordinary and necessary result of every deep sounding . It is no part of the object of the present article to repeat the accounts already frequently given of the methods by which deep soundings ...
... feet of water , but this has now become an ordinary and necessary result of every deep sounding . It is no part of the object of the present article to repeat the accounts already frequently given of the methods by which deep soundings ...
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