 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 536 pages
...attributed to a diminution of the general heat of the atmosphere. Y These examples are sufficient to show the value of the fact, that bodies become colder than...are contained in the works of Mr. Leslie and Count Ilumford. The experience of most persons, respecting the communication of heat among bodies in the... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 530 pages
...attributed to a diminution of the general heat of the atmosphere. These examples are sufficient to show the value of the fact, that bodies become colder than...dewed, in explaining many atmospherical appearances. To tfhis point, the investigation of the cause of dew might have been carried at any time, since the invention... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pages
...a copious induction of facts derived from observation and experiment, establishes the proposition, that bodies become colder than the neighbouring air BEFORE they are dewed. The cold therefore which Dr. Wilson and Mr. Six conjectured to be the effect of dew, now appears to... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...a copious induction of facts, derived from observation and experiment, establishes the proposition, that bodies become colder than the neighbouring air before they are dewed. The cold, therefore, which Dr. Wilson and Mr. Six conjectured to be the effect of dew, now appears... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1835 - 1326 pages
...a copious induction of facts, derived from observation and experiment, establishes the proposition, that bodies become colder than the neighbouring air, before they are dewed. The cold, therefore, which Dr. Wilson and M. Six conjectured to be the effect of dew, now appears to... | |
 | John Towers (C.M.H.S.) - 1839 - 746 pages
...a copious induction of facts, derived from observation and experiment, establishes the proposition that bodies become colder than the neighbouring air before they are dewed ; and as different bodies project heat with very different degrees of force — " in the operation... | |
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These examples are sufficient to shew the value of the fact, that bodies become colder than the neighbouring air, before they are dewed, in explaining many atmospherical appearances. To this point, the investigation of the cause of dew might have been... 