 When that comes about, our centres of industrial activity may perhaps be transferred to the burning deserts of the Sahara, and the value of land determined by its suitability for the reception of traps to catch sunbeams. " This energy, in the interval...  The Observatory - Page 3461909Full view - About this book
 | Evan McLennan - 1916 - 538 pages
...called a science at all — and would be valuable merely as intellectual exercise.— WILLIAM GARNETT. This energy, in the interval between its departure...keep the earth circling round the sun and the moon around the earth.— SIR JJ THOMSON. Nature is generally more simple than our conceptions thereof;... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1910 - 1114 pages
...energy, in the interval between its departure from the sun and its arrival at the earth, must be hi the space between them. Thus this space must contain...pace the energy associated with light and heat, and which can, in addition, exert the enormous stresses necessary to keep the earth circling round the... | |
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