 the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snow-flakes descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed...  Heat, a Mode of Motion - Page 135by John Tyndall - 1873 - 532 pagesFull view - About this book
 | National Sunday school union - 1871 - 598 pages
...material demands an energy competent to gather up the scattered blocks of the largest stone avalanches I have ever seen, and pitch them to twice the height from, which they fell." Who but, considering these things, must enter somewhat into the feelings of the patriarch, when God... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 500 pages
...yet to produce, from aqueous vapour, a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather...pitch them to twice the height from which they fell. I will now relieve the strain which I have hitherto put upon your attention, by introducing a few experimental... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pages
...yet to produce, from aqueous vapour, a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather...pitch them to twice the height from which they fell. I will now relieve the strain which I have hitherto put upon your attention, by introducing a few experimental... | |
 | EDWARDL.YOUMANS,M.D. - 1863 - 468 pages
...demands an exertion of energy competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone avalanche I have ever seen, and pitch them to twice the height from which they fell.' §VI. Liquefaction — Freezing — Ebullition. 282. The amount of force consumed in producing liquefaction... | |
 | Josiah Parsons Cooke (Jr.) - 1864 - 370 pages
...demands an exertion of energy competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone avalanche I have ever seen, and pitch them to twice the height from which they fell." If such, then, be the measure of these atomic motions, we can easily conceive how the motion of the... | |
 | 1865 - 648 pages
...demands an exertion of energy competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone avalanche I have ever seen, and pitch them to twice the height from which they fell."— Page 164. Thus far heat has only been considered as existing in the bodies in which it was generated.... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1866 - 492 pages
...yet to produce, from aqueous vapour, a quantity of that tender material which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather...pitch them to twice the height from which they fell. I will now relieve the strain which I have hitherto put upon your attention, by introducing a few experimental... | |
 | 1866 - 646 pages
...Yet, to produce, from aqueous vapour, a quantity of that tender material, which a child could carry, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather...pitch, them to twice the height from which they fell." [CONCLUDED IN MAY NUMBER.} • MISCELLANEOUS. PHYSICIANS AND PHYSICISTS. — When that dread day arrives... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1866 - 480 pages
...demands an exertion of energy competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone avalanche I have ever seen, and pitch them to twice the height from* which they fell.' § VI. Liquefaction—Freezing—Ebullition. 282. The amount of force consumed in producing liquefaction... | |
 | 1868 - 560 pages
...not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed; yet to produce, from aqueous vapour, a quantity which a child could carry, of that tender...pitch them to twice the height from which they fell." But it is when we come to estimate the fall of rain as a terrestrial phenomenon — as a process continually... | |
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