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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... seem to confirm Sir John's idea ; and to show , too , that the moon's heat , though effective at great heights , is entirely expended before arriving at the lower strata of cloud , 2,300 feet above the sea . The elevation of the upper ...
... seem to confirm Sir John's idea ; and to show , too , that the moon's heat , though effective at great heights , is entirely expended before arriving at the lower strata of cloud , 2,300 feet above the sea . The elevation of the upper ...
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... seems little hope of doing , unless , as Professor Smyth suggests , we ascend to the level of the high clouds which he saw evaporated by the full moon - an altitude of about three miles . The visible heat rays , and those which are not ...
... seems little hope of doing , unless , as Professor Smyth suggests , we ascend to the level of the high clouds which he saw evaporated by the full moon - an altitude of about three miles . The visible heat rays , and those which are not ...
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... seems probable that the gal- vanometer needle employed by Forbes was not sufficiently delicate to answer to the action of the current furnished by the pile . 40 Melloni's new experiments were made in 1846 with a poly- zonal lens of a ...
... seems probable that the gal- vanometer needle employed by Forbes was not sufficiently delicate to answer to the action of the current furnished by the pile . 40 Melloni's new experiments were made in 1846 with a poly- zonal lens of a ...
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... seem to be heat which passes through air , and yet is obstructed by glass . One result of thermoscopic investigations upon the light of moon and stars may be to improve our knowledge upon such points as this . the small concave ...
... seem to be heat which passes through air , and yet is obstructed by glass . One result of thermoscopic investigations upon the light of moon and stars may be to improve our knowledge upon such points as this . the small concave ...
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... seem sufficient , theoretically speaking . He did not , however , put the question practically to proof , and it is possible , I think , that a sponge prepared in the manner described might contain in its porous substance many bodies ...
... seem sufficient , theoretically speaking . He did not , however , put the question practically to proof , and it is possible , I think , that a sponge prepared in the manner described might contain in its porous substance many bodies ...
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