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" light or heat; its intensity diminishes as the rarity of the air increases ; so that, at a very small height above the surface of the earth, the noise of the tempest ceases, and the thunder is heard no more in those boundless regions where the heavenly... "
Mechanism of the Heavens - Page lvi
by Mary Somerville - 1831 - 621 pages
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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1834 - 666 pages
...of two tides. The propagation of sound, however, requires a much denser medium than that cither of light or heat, its intensity diminishes as the rarity...accomplish their periods in eternal and sublime silence. A consciousness of the fallacy of our judgment is one of the most important consequences of the study...
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The Connection of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 pages
...of two tides. The propagation of sound, however, requires a much denser medium than that either of light or heat, its intensity diminishes as the rarity...accomplish their periods in eternal and sublime silence. A consciousness of the fallacy of our judgment is one of the most important consequences of the study...
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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1834 - 484 pages
...of two tides. The propagation of sound, however, requires a much denser medium than that either of light or heat, its intensity diminishes as the rarity...accomplish their periods in eternal and sublime silence. A consciousness of the fallacy of our judgment is one of the most important consequences of the study...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 51

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 568 pages
...of two tides. The propagation of sound, however, requires a much denser medium than that either of light or heat ; its intensity diminishes as the rarity...bodies accomplish their periods in eternal and sublime silence.'—pp. 250, 251. We refer to the following on account of the novelty of the subject :— '...
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Poems: Now First Collected

Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 434 pages
...stormful regions far above. " The propagation of sound, however, requires a much denser medium than light or heat ; its intensity diminishes as the rarity...more in those boundless regions where the heavenly hodies accomplish their periods in eternal and sublime silence."—SOMFRVILLE'S Connection of the Physical...
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On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1840 - 858 pages
...interference of two tides. The propagation of sound however, requires a much denser medium than that either of light or heat; its intensity diminishes as the rarity...accomplish their periods in eternal and sublime silence. A consciousness of the fallacy of our senses is one of the most important consequences of the study...
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On the Connection of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1846 - 506 pages
...of two tides. The propagation of sound, however, requires a much denser medium than that either of light or heat ; its intensity diminishes as the rarity...bodies accomplish their periods in eternal and sublime NUence. deep abyss of the mine, the spirit of light to dispel the midnight darkness. A consciousness...
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On the Connection of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pages
...of two tides. The propagation of sound, however, requires a much denser medium than that either of light or heat; its intensity diminishes as the rarity...noise of the tempest ceases, and the thunder is heard no^nore in those boundless regions where the heavenly bodies accomplish their periods in eternal and...
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On the Connection of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pages
...of two tides. The propagation of sound, however, requires a much denser medium than that either of light or heat ; its intensity diminishes as the rarity of the air increases ; so that, at a veiy small height above the surface of the earth, the noise of the tempest ceases, and the thunder...
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On the Connection of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville - 1871 - 490 pages
...of two tides. The propagation of sound, however, requires a much denser medium than that either of light or heat; its intensity diminishes as the rarity...accomplish their periods in eternal and sublime silence. A consciousness of the fallacy of our senses is one of the most important consequences of the study...
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