Light Science for Leisure Hours; a Series of Familiar Essays on Scientific Subjects, Natural Phenomena, &cLongmans, Green, and Company, 1880 - 323 páginas |
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Light Science for Leisure Hours, Second Series: Familiar Essays on ... Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor Sin vista previa disponible - 2012 |
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Achilles Ångström appear Aratus arctic astronomer Atlantic aurora auroral light cause century chance circle circumference circumstance coal comet consider constellations consumption continually course crater Crozet Island cyclones depth destructive difficulty disturbance doubt earth earthquake effects enormous equator equatorial eruption evidence extended fact feet force gradually Greenland Gulf Stream Halley's method heat height Homer horse hundred increase instance Ischia islands land latitudes lava length less magnetic needle Maury miles millions of tons moon motion mountain nature nearly North Pole observed ocean odds pass peculiarity phenomena planet present reached recognised region remarkable respecting result says sea-wave seems seen Shield Shield of Achilles ship shores side Sir Charles Lyell solar spectrum Spitzbergen storm sun's distance supposed surface survey theory tion transit transit of Venus vapour Venus Vesuvius volcanic wave westerly white ball whole winds zodiacal light
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Página 80 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Página 128 - Often one half of a vessel may be perceived floating in Gulf Stream water, while the other half is in common water of the sea, so sharp is the line and such the want of affinity between those waters, and such too the reluctance, so to speak, on the part of those of the Gulf Stream to mingle with the common water of the sea.
Página 237 - I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities, with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snow-flakes descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed ; yet to produce, from aqueous...
Página 182 - ... weight, expanded in this manner : it appeared sometimes Bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders.
Página 181 - He was at that time with the fleet under his command at Misenum. On the 24th of August, about one in the afternoon, my mother desired him to observe a cloud which appeared of a very unusual size and shape. He had just returned from taking the benefit of the sun*, and after bathing himself in cold water, and taking a slight repast, was retired to his study.
Página 90 - On the one hand, the rate of consumption may be thrown back to any extent by adverse causes affecting our national prosperity; and on the other hand, new discoveries and developments in new directions may arise to produce a contrary effect upon the consumption of coal. Every hypothesis must be speculative ; but it is certain that if the present rate of increase in the consumption of coal be indefinitely continued, even in an approximate degree, the progress towards the exhaustion of our coal will...
Página 181 - I cannot give you a more exact description of its figure than by comparing it to that of a pine-tree, for it shot up to a great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches...