 Now, if bits of cork or chaff, or any floating substance, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water, all the light substances will be found crowding together near the centre of the pool, where there is the least motion. Just such...  Southern Literary Messenger - Страница 3981844Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1895 - 250 страници
...way : — " If a bit of cork, or any floating surface, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water, all the light substances will...first found this weedy sea in his voyage of discovery, and there it has remained to this day, moving up and down, and changing its position, like the calms... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1908 - 362 страници
...If bits of cork or chips, or any floating substance, be put into a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water, all the light substances will be found crowding together near the center of the pool where there is the least motion. Like such a basin is the Atlantic Ocean, with its... | |
 | Lewis Spence - 1996 - 296 страници
...Now if bits of cork, or chaff or any floating substance be put in a basin and a circular motion be given to the water, all the light substances will...voyage of discovery; there it has remained to this day, moving up and down, and changing its position, like the calms of Cancer, accordCONJECTURAL SITE OF... | |
 | 1844 - 900 страници
...Stream. Now if bits of cork, or chaff, or any floating bodies be put in a basin, and a circular motion be given to the water, all the light substances will...Stream, and the Sargasso Sea is the centre of the whirl. Certain observations as to its limits, extending back for fifty years, assure us that its position... | |
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