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" ... the country, though in a less degree than during the day, as the clouds will remit towards the earth no inconsiderable quantity of heat. But on a clear night, in an open part of the country, nothing almost can be returned to us from above, in place... "
An Essay on Dew: And Several Appearances Connected with it - Page 112
by William Charles Wells - 1815 - 150 pages
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An Essay on Dew: And Several Appearances Connected with it

William Charles Wells - 1815 - 168 pages
...nothing almost can be returned to us from above, in place of the heat which we radiate upwards. In towns, however, some compensation will be afforded, even...of the hurtful effects of the night air. Descartes* says that these are not owing to dew, as was the common opinion of his eotemporaries, but to the descent...
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Two Essays: One, Upon Single Vision with Two Eyes; the Other, On Dew; A ...

William Charles Wells - 1818 - 554 pages
...nothing almost can be returned to us from above, in place of the heat which we radiate upwards. In towns, however, some compensation will be afforded, even...of the hurtful effects of the night air. Descartes * says that these are not owing to dew, as was the common opinion of his cotemporaries, but to the...
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Two Essays: One Upon Single Vision with Two Eyes; the Other on Dew

William Charles Wells - 1818 - 530 pages
...nothing almost can be returned to us from above, in place of the heat which we radiate upwards. In towns, however, some compensation will be afforded, even...of the hurtful effects of the night air. Descartes * says that these are not owing to dew, as was the common opinion of his cotemporaries, but to the...
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The Journal of Health, Volume 3

1831 - 456 pages
...place of the heat which we radiate upwards. In towns, however, some compensation will be afiorded, even on the clearest nights, for the heat which we...lose in the open air, by that which is radiated to us from the surrounding buildings. cloth, even though the sides be entirely open, and a free passage of...
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Hygiene: Or, Health as Depending Upon the Conditions of the Atmosphere ...

James H. Pickford - 1858 - 336 pages
...of the night air is attributed to its coldness. Dr. Wells says, " to our loss of heat by radiation is probably to be attributed a great part of the hurtful effects of the night air." Descartes is of opinion that these are not owing to dew, but to the descent of certain noxious vapours, which,...
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A History of Science, Volume 3

Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 378 pages
...nights for the heat which we lose in the open air by that which is radiated to us from the sun round buildings. " To our loss of heat by radiation at times...of the hurtful effects of the night air. Descartes says that these are not owing to dew, as was the common opinion of his contemporaries, but to the descent...
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Modern development of the physical sciences

Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams - 1904 - 380 pages
...almost can be returned to us 190 from above in place of the heat which we radiate upward. In towns, however, some compensation will be afforded even on...lose in the open air by that which is radiated to us from the sun round buildings. " To our loss of heat by radiation at times that we derive little compensation...
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A History of science v. 3, Volume 3

Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 400 pages
...which we radiate upward. In towns, however, some compensation will be afforded even on the dearest nights for the heat which we lose in the open air by that which is radiated to us from the sun round buildings. " To our loss of heat by radiation at times that we derive little compensation...
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