 | William Charles Wells - 1815 - 168 pages
...air. Descartes* says that these are not owing to dew, as was the common opinion of his eotemporaries, but to the descent of certain noxious vapours, which,...from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, 1 ' Meteorolog. c. V5. by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 pages
...temperature of the air as exhibited by the thermometer. ' I had often,' says Dr. Wells, p. 120, ' in tlie pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently...from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone 1 thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned, that bodies on the surface... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 536 pages
...The effects in question certainly cannot be occasioned by dew, since that fluid * Meteorolog. c. vi. does not form upon a healthy human body, in temperate...from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned, that bodies on the surface... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 554 pages
...The effects in question certainly cannot be occasioned by dew, since that fluid * Meteorolog. c. vi. does not form upon a healthy human body, in temperate...from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned, that bodies on the surface... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pages
...doctrines of latent heat. " 1 had often," says Dr. Wells, " smiled, in the pride of half knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to...from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But when 1 had learned, that bodies on the surface... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 pages
...arc sometimes found dry when the grass on the ground's surface has been found corered with dew. •' I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled...from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned, that bodies on the surface... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1825 - 1250 pages
...covered with dew. 2254. A very slight covering will exclude much cold. I had often, observes Dr. Wells, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means...from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned, that bodies on the surface... | |
 | Thomas Gill (patent-agent) - 1826 - 440 pages
...knowledge upon this important subject, thus candidly remarks upon this anticipation of science:—"I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled...from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But when I had learned that bodies on the surface... | |
 | John Frederic Daniell - 1827 - 200 pages
...candidly remarks upon this anticipation of science : " I had often, in the pride of half-knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners...from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But when I had learned that bodies on the surface... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1827 - 904 pages
...doctrines of latent heat. “ I had often,” says Dr. ¿VeUs, “smiled, in the pride of half knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect...from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But when I had learned, that bodies on the surface... | |
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I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance could prevent them from attaining the temperature... 
