 | Edmond Halley, Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1705 - 390 pages
...Globe were all Water very deep, or rather that the whole Body of the Earth were Water, and that the Sun had his diurnal courfe about it: I take it, that it would follow, that the Air of it felf would imbibe a certain Quantity of aqueous Vapors, and retain them like Salts diflblved in... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1722 - 956 pages
...Globe were all Water very deep, or rather that the whole Body of the Earth were Water, and that the Sun had his Diurnal courfe about it: I take it, that it would follow that the Air of it felf would imbibe a certain quantity of Aqueous Vapours, and retain them like Salts diflolved in... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1785 - 390 pages
...concerning the origin of fprings : .in this tract he exprefies himfelf • in the following manner, " the air of itfelf would imbibe a certain quantity of aqueous vapours, and retain them like falls diffolved in water, the fun warming the air, and raifing a more plentiful vapour from the water... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1787 - 396 pages
...concerning the origin of fprings : in this "traft he expreffcs Kimfelf in the following manner : *c The air of itfelf would imbibe a certain quantity of aqueous vapours, and retain them like fait s diffbhed in water, the fun warming the air, and raifing a more plentiful vapour from the water... | |
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... had his diurnal courfe about it ; I take it, that it would follow, that the air of itfelf would imbibe a certain quantity of aqueous vapours, and retain them like... 