 I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible, that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the...  Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion - Page 454by John Tyndall - 1870 - 541 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Charles Wells - 1815 - 168 pages
...could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, 1 ' Meteorolog. c. V5. by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when...a just reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed,... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1815 - 174 pages
...could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, * Meteorolog. c. vi. » by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when...a just reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed,... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 536 pages
...such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when...a just reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed,... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 554 pages
...such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when...a just reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed,... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pages
...flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone 1 thought them liable to be injured. But when I had...a just reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pages
...attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But when 1 had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth...a just reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise information on this subject, 1 fixed... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 pages
...such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when...a just reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useleu. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1825 - 1250 pages
...such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when...a just reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1826 - 1252 pages
...temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I liad learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become,...a just reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed,... | |
 | Thomas Gill (patent-agent) - 1826 - 440 pages
...such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But when...had learned that bodies on the surface of the earth became, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the... | |
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