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" Foucalt's experiments that sunlight has 150 times the luminous intensity of the lime light ; so that we only require to calculate at what temperature this intensity is reached in order to get the solar temperature. This temperature is 16,000° C., in... "
Collected Papers of Sir James Dewar... - Page 53
by Sir James Dewar - 1927
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 5

1862 - 556 pages
...grounds, very strong reason for believing that the specific heat is really much less than 10,000. For it is almost certain that the sun's mean temperature is even now as high as 14,000° Cent. ; and the greatest quantity of heat that we can explain, with any probability, to have been by...
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MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 5

Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1862 - 576 pages
...grounds, very strong reason for believing that the specific heat is really much less than 10,000. For it is almost certain that the sun's mean temperature is even now as high as 14,000° Cent. ; and the greatest quantity of heat that we can explain, with any probability, to have been by...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume 7

Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1872 - 914 pages
...Fiseau and Foucalt's experiments that sunlight has 150 times the luminous intensity of the lime light ; so that we only require to calculate at what temperature...which the luminous intensity calculation agrees well. 4. On the Temperature of the Electric Spark. By James Dewar, Esq. (Abstract.) The author begins this...
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Report of the Annual Meeting

British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1873 - 900 pages
...Enormously high temperatures are not required, therefore, to produce great luminous intensities," ana the temperature of the sun need not, at least, exceed...the sun's mean temperature is even now as high as 14000° C. ; " and this is the estimate with which the luminous intensity calculation agrees well....
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The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of ..., Volume 13; Volume 1873

1874 - 840 pages
...sun does not nt least exceed the above estimate. Mr. Dewar cites the opinion of Sir Wm. Thomson, who says: "It is almost certain that the sun's mean temperature is even now as high as 14,000° C.," an estimate which agrees well with the luminous intensity calculated. Spectrum of the Sun. — In a...
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Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing ...

1874 - 834 pages
...does not at least exceed the above estimate. Mr. Dewar cites the opinion of Sir Wm. Thomson, who soys: "It is almost certain that the sun's mean temperature is even now as high as 14,000° C.," nn estimate which agrees well with the luminous intensity calculated. Spectrum of the Sun.—In a paper...
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Treatise on Natural Philosophy, Volume 1, Part 2

William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1883 - 564 pages
...grounds, very strong reason for believing that the specific heat is really much less than 10,000. For it is almost certain that the sun's mean temperature* is even now as high as 14,000° * [Kosetti (Phil. Mag. 1879, 2nd half year) estimates the effective radiational temperature of the...
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Popular Lectures and Addresses, Volume 1

William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1889 - 486 pages
...grounds, very strong reason for believing that the specific heat is really much less than 10,000. For it is almost certain that the sun's mean temperature is even now as high as 14,000° Cent. ; and the greatest quantity of heat that we can explain, with any probability, to have been by...
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Essays in Astronomy

1900 - 600 pages
...grounds, very strong reason for believing that the specific heat is really much less than 10,000. For it is almost certain that the sun's mean temperature is even now as high as 14,000° C.; and the greatest quantity of heat that we can explain, with any probability, to have been by natural causes...
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Messenger of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Volume 49

1908 - 754 pages
...hotter than the whitehot molten metal in a Bessemer converter. Lord Kelvin [Ib., p. 367] thinks " it almost certain that the sun's mean temperature is, even now, as high as 14,000° Centigrade!" No wonder that the source of so vast a supply of heat should be the scene of gigantic...
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