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Size and Constitution of the Sun - The Solar Spots — Intensity of the Sun's Light and Heat — The Sun's Atmosphere — His influence on the Planets Atmospheres of the Planets — The Moon has none — Lunar heat — The Differential Telescope ...
Size and Constitution of the Sun - The Solar Spots — Intensity of the Sun's Light and Heat — The Sun's Atmosphere — His influence on the Planets Atmospheres of the Planets — The Moon has none — Lunar heat — The Differential Telescope ...
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Size and Constitution of the Sun - The Solar Spots — Intensity of the Sun's Light and Heat — The Sun's Atmosphere — His influence on the Planets Atmospheres of the Planets — The Moon has none — - Lunar heat — The Differential Telescope ...
Size and Constitution of the Sun - The Solar Spots — Intensity of the Sun's Light and Heat — The Sun's Atmosphere — His influence on the Planets Atmospheres of the Planets — The Moon has none — - Lunar heat — The Differential Telescope ...
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Terrestrial Heat Radiation - Transmission --- Melloni's experiments - Heat in Solar Spectrum Polarization of Heat - Nature of Heat Absorptions Dew — Rain — Combustion Expansion — Compensation Pendulum - Transmission through Crystals ...
Terrestrial Heat Radiation - Transmission --- Melloni's experiments - Heat in Solar Spectrum Polarization of Heat - Nature of Heat Absorptions Dew — Rain — Combustion Expansion — Compensation Pendulum - Transmission through Crystals ...
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It follows , then , that , as the primitive momentum of rotation with which the earth was projected into space must necessarily remain the same , the smallest decrease in heat , by contracting the terrestrial spheroid , would accelerate ...
It follows , then , that , as the primitive momentum of rotation with which the earth was projected into space must necessarily remain the same , the smallest decrease in heat , by contracting the terrestrial spheroid , would accelerate ...
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Yet Sir John Herschel has shown that .by this alternation neither hemisphere acquires any excess of light or heat above the other ; for , although the earth is nearer to the sun while moving through that part of its orbit in which the ...
Yet Sir John Herschel has shown that .by this alternation neither hemisphere acquires any excess of light or heat above the other ; for , although the earth is nearer to the sun while moving through that part of its orbit in which the ...
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