 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
 | Robert Hunt - 1851 - 502 pages
...But when I had learned that bodies on the surface of the 2B2 earth become, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their...subject, I fixed perpendicularly, in the earth of a grass-plat, four small sticks ; and over their upper extremities, which were six inches above the... | |
 | American Medical Association - 1853 - 930 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." To obviate the uncomfortable and injurious effects of solar radiation during the day, an umbrella or... | |
 | 1854 - 720 pages
...injured ; but when I learnt that bodies on the surface of the earth become often colder than the air, by radiating their heat to the heavens, I perceived...subject, I fixed perpendicularly, in the earth of a grass-plat, four small sticks, and over their upper extremities, which were six inches above the... | |
 | 1854 - 534 pages
...injured; but when I learnt that bodies on the surface of the earth become often colder than the air, by radiating their heat to the heavens, I perceived...subject, I fixed perpendicularly, in the earth of a grass-plat, four small sticks, and over their upper extremities, which were six inches above the... | |
 | Thomas Young - 1855 - 804 pages
...But, when I hail learned, that Iwdies on the surface of the earth Ix-come, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the heavens, 1 jierceived immediately a just reason for the practice, which I had U-forc deemed us.-].'**. Being... | |
 | 1858 - 396 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." 1262. Dew forms in very different quantities, under the same circumstances, upon different materials;—on... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1860 - 374 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." Even a thin cambric handkerchief, or, as Patrick Wilson found, a piece of gauze, spread out and supported... | |
 | William Keane (gardener.) - 1861 - 252 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...for the practice which I had before deemed useless." Mr- B It is for the same reason that when the surfaces of the vinery and melon beds have received a... | |
 | Home tutor - 1862 - 532 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...for the practice which I had before deemed useless." Dew forms ia very different quantities under the same circumstances upon different materials—on metals... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 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.' BB I 404 LECTURE XII. formed in each vessel. This is the explanation of Wells, and it is, no doubt,... | |
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