 night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the heavens, I perceived immediately a just reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed,...  Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge, ed. by E ... - Page 131by Encyclopaedia - 1845Full view - About this book
 | 1833 - 796 pages
...injured. But when I had learned that bodies on the surface of the earth became, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their...perceived immediately a just reason for the practice I had before deemed useless. Hcing desirous of acquiring some precise information on this subject,... | |
 | 1836 - 422 pages
...injured. But when I had learned that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their...subject, I fixed, perpendicularly, in the earth of a grassplot, four small sticks, and over their upper extremities, which were six inches above the grass,... | |
 | William Mullinger Higgins - 1836 - 514 pages
...injured. But when I had learned that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their...subject, I fixed, perpendicularly, in the earth of a grasspiot, four small sticks, and over their upper extremities, which were six inches above the grass,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 854 pages
...injured. But when I had learned that bodies on ihe surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their...perceived immediately a just reason for the practice winch I had before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise information on... | |
 | John Towers (C.M.H.S.) - 1839 - 746 pages
...organization. 196. A very slight catering will exclude much cold'.—" Being desirous," says Dr. Wells, " of acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed perpendicularly in the earth of a grass-plot, four small sticks, and over their upper extremities, which were lix inches above the... | |
 | John Frederic Daniell - 1845 - 456 pages
...injured. But when I had learned that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their...for the practice which I had before deemed useless." differing in degree in different kinds of matter. Coexisting with it, in the same degrees, may be regarded... | |
 | john murray - 1845 - 722 pages
...injured. But, when I had learned that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their...the practice, which I had before deemed useless.” He then ascertained by experiment that “ A difference in temperature of some magnitude was always... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1847 - 132 pages
...that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene * Daniell's Meteorology. night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their...for the practice which I had before deemed useless." Even a thin cambric handkerchief, spread out and supported six inches above the grass, is sufficient... | |
 | Josiah Parkes - 1848 - 96 pages
...injured. But when I had learned that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their...the practice, which I had before deemed useless." He then ascertained by experiment that " A difference in temperature of some magnitude was always observed,... | |
 | Sir Joseph Paxton - 1849 - 516 pages
...leave no doubt remaining upon a point of such practical utility. " Being desirous," says Dr. Wells, " of acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed, perpendicularly in the earth of a grass-plot, four small sticks, and over their upper extremities, which were six inches above the... | |
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