 | 1883 - 1048 pages
...which I have mentioned into what is known as his Law, which for the northern hemisphere runs thus. " Stand with your back to the wind and the barometer will be lower on your loft hand than on your right." The apparatus consists of a bar or cross piece like a ship's yard, hoisted... | |
 | 1873 - 598 pages
...winds, and has laid down a principle whish generally goes by the name of his Law. It runs thus: — " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your leit hand than on your right." This Jaw shows us that the old idea that the direction of the wind is... | |
 | 1869 - 692 pages
...Ballot. The rule has been very constantly brought before the public of late. It may be thus stated : — Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left-hand side than on your right. Accordingly if on any day the reading at Valencia is lower than... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1869 - 700 pages
...Ballot. The rule has been very constantly brought before the public of late. It may be thus stated : — Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left-hand side than on your right. Accordingly if on any day the reading at Valencia is lower than... | |
 | Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain) - 1870 - 826 pages
...Redfield, and by Dr. Lloyd, the present Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. The law is as follows : — Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left-hand side than on your right. Stated thus, the law has no predictive force, but, if it be stated... | |
 | Royal Society of Tasmania - 1871 - 540 pages
...established. * The advent as well direction of the storm has been familiarly expressed by Ballot's law, " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer...will be lower on your left hand than on your right." This roughly-stated principle will account for the great storms of the Northern Hemisphere, the hurricanes... | |
 | 1879 - 978 pages
...weather telegraphy. It is usually known under the name of Buys Ballot's Law, and is stated as follows : " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer...will be lower on your left hand than on your right." The truth of this law is evident to any one who looks at a weather chart ; but the Dutch Professor,... | |
 | 1873 - 808 pages
...the barometrical column. This principle is known as Buys Ballot's Law ; it runs as follows : — " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer...will be lower on your left hand than on your right." This is a simple application to all winds of the principle established long ago by Mr. Redfield and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1873 - 840 pages
...the barometrical column. This principle is known as Buys Ballot's Law ; it runs as follows : — " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer...will be lower on your left hand than on your right." This is a simple application to all winds of the principle established long ago by Mr. Redfield and... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1874 - 764 pages
...BUYS BALLOT'S LAW, after the Dutch Professor of that name, who discovered it. It runs as follows : " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer...will be lower on your left hand than on your right hand." We know then, from this law, that whenever wo have a Westerly wind the barometer must be lower... | |
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Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right. 
