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 lviby Mary Somerville - 1831 - 621 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 :— '... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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