 | 1866 - 632 pages
...offer very little resistance to the passage of the solar rays, but would cut off fully thirty-five per cent of the planetary radiation. It would require...layer of vapour to double this absorption ; and it is evident that, with a protecting envelope which permits heat to enter but prevents its escape, a comfortable... | |
 | 1867 - 844 pages
...offer very little resistance to the passage of the solar rays, but would cut off fully thirty-five per cent of the planetary radiation. It would require no inordinate thickening of the layer of vapor to double this absorption ; and it is evident that with a protecting envelope, which permits-... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 560 pages
...entire argument. It is perfectly possible to find an atmosphere which would act the part of a bctrb to the solar rays, permitting their entrance towards...this absorption ; and it is perfectly evident that, CHAP. xii. RAISING OF THE RATE OF VIBRATION. 407 with a protecting envelope of this kind, permitting... | |
 | 1868 - 978 pages
...as soon as received. " It would require no inordinate thickening of the layer of vapour," he adds, "to double this absorption ; and it is perfectly evident...comfortable temperature might be obtained on the surface of our most distant Cjet." When we remember, on the other d, that during the full heat of the tropical... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1869 - 566 pages
...those calculations the influence of an atmospheric envelope was overlooked, and this omission vitiated the entire argument. It is perfectly possible to find...comfortable temperature might be obtained on the surface of our most distant planet. Dr. Akin was the first to maintain the opinion, which I hold to be correct,... | |
 | 1869 - 890 pages
...as soon as received. " It would require no inordinate thickening of the layer of vapour," he adds, " to double this absorption ; and it is perfectly evident...comfortable temperature might be obtained on the surface of our most distant planet." When we remember, on the other hand, that during the full heat of the tropical... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1869 - 798 pages
...as soon as received. " It would require no inordinate thickening of the layer of vapour," he adds, " to double this absorption ; and it is perfectly evident...comfortable temperature might be obtained on the surface of our most distant planet." When we remember, on the other hand, that during the full heat of the tropical... | |
 | 1869 - 1188 pages
...as soon as received. " It would require no inordinate thickening of the layer of vapour," he adds, " to double this absorption ; and it is perfectly evident...comfortable temperature might be obtained on the surface of our most distant planet." When we remember, on the other hand, that during the full heat of the tropical... | |
 | 1869 - 332 pages
...as soon as received. " It would require no inordinate thickening of the layer of vapour," he adds, " to double this absorption ; and it is perfectly evident...comfortable temperature might be obtained on the surface of our most distant planet." When we remember, on the other hand, that during the full heat of the tropical... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1870 - 576 pages
...vapour of sulphuric ether, would offer very little resistance to the passage of the solar rays, l>ut I find that it would cut off fully 35 per cent. of...comfortable temperature might be obtained on the surface of our most distant planet. Dr. Akin was the first to maintain the opinion, which I hold to be correct,... | |
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It would require no inordinate thickening of the layer of vapour to double this absorption ; and it is perfectly evident that, with a protecting envelope of this kind, permitting the heat to enter, but preventing its escape, a comfortable temperature... 
