The Climate of London: Deduced from Meteorological Observations Made in the Metropolis and at Various Places Around it, Volume 1Harvey and Darton, J. and A. Arch, Longman, Hatchard, S. Highley [and] R. Hunter, 1833 |
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The Climate of London: Deduced from Meteorological Observations Made in the ... Luke Howard No preview available - 2015 |
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Annual appears ASKESIAN SOCIETY atmosphere Autumn average Barome Barometer cause charge Cirrus climate Climate of London clouds cold column connexion consequence continued Cumulus curve degree depression diurnal earth effect Electricity elevation Equinox Evaporation exhibited extreme fair weather falls formed frost Full Moon greatest guage heat inches increase intervals July June latitudes latter London lower Lunar phases maxima and minima mean height Mean temperature medium Megara Meteorology Modifications month Monthly Moon's nearly negative night North declination Northerly winds observations phenomena Plaistow positive present proportion quantity quarter Rain reader rises season Septenary shower Six's Thermometer sixth column snow Solar variation Solstice South Southerly space storm stratus Summer Sun's surface Table Temp temperature Thermometer thunder thunder-storm tion tricity vapour variation whole winter
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Page 173 - The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Page xxxv - When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder; Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Page xxxv - While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page xxxv - To make the weight for the winds ; And he weigheth the waters by measure. When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder : Then did he see it, and declare it ; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Page xlii - ... each other laterally. The form and relative position, when seen in the distance, frequently give the idea of shoals of fish. Yet in this, as in other instances, the structure must be attended to rather than the form, which varies much, presenting at times the appearance of parallel bars, or interwoven streaks like the grain of polished wood.
Page 72 - ... resolved to remove his body into the choir, which was to have been done with solemn procession on the 15th of July. It rained, however...
Page xxxviii - Horizontal, or slightly inclined masses, attenuated towards a part or the whole of their circumference, bent downward or undulated, separate or in groups, consisting of small clouds having these characters.
Page 175 - At this rate it held blowing till Wednesday, about one o'clock in the afternoon, which was that day seven-night on which it began; so that it might be called one continued storm from Wednesday noon to Wednesday noon: in all which time, there was not one interval of time in which a sailor would not have acknowledged it blew a storm ; and in that time two such terrible nights as I have described.
Page xl - Their appearance, increase, and disappearance, in fair weather, are often periodical, and keep pace with the temperature of the day. Thus they will begin to form some hours after sun-rise, arrive at their maximum in the hottest part of the afternoon, then go on diminishing and totally disperse about sun-set.
Page xxxvii - It affirms the startling and apparently incredible proposition, that ' when two elastic fluids, denoted by A and B, are mixed together, there is no mutual repulsion amongst their particles — that is, the particles of A do not repel those of B, as they do one another ; consequently, the pressure or whole weight upon any one particle arises solely from those of its own kind.