The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volume 9James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1870 |
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... means of examination , it has been confirmed by Professor Piazzi Smyth's observations upon the high clouds over the Peak of Teneriffe . Herschel , " Outlines , " sect . 432 . " Proc . of Roy . Soc . , " xvii . 436 . + Poggendorf ...
... means of examination , it has been confirmed by Professor Piazzi Smyth's observations upon the high clouds over the Peak of Teneriffe . Herschel , " Outlines , " sect . 432 . " Proc . of Roy . Soc . , " xvii . 436 . + Poggendorf ...
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... means of examination , it has been confirmed by Professor Piazzi Smyth's observations upon the high clouds over the Peak of Teneriffe . Herschel , " Outlines , " sect . 432 . " Proc . of Roy . Soc . , " xvii . 436 . + Poggendorf ...
... means of examination , it has been confirmed by Professor Piazzi Smyth's observations upon the high clouds over the Peak of Teneriffe . Herschel , " Outlines , " sect . 432 . " Proc . of Roy . Soc . , " xvii . 436 . + Poggendorf ...
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... means of thermo- metry , measure with some pretensions to accuracy . Whether the moon's light possesses perceptible warmth has been a point of anxious and tentative inquiry among astronomers and phy- sicists for a century and a half at ...
... means of thermo- metry , measure with some pretensions to accuracy . Whether the moon's light possesses perceptible warmth has been a point of anxious and tentative inquiry among astronomers and phy- sicists for a century and a half at ...
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... means ; but the more philosophical cure was to cover the pile with plates of glass , which would allow heat to pass ... mean de- flection in the direction indicating warmth derived from all the " Comptes rendus , " xxii . 543 ...
... means ; but the more philosophical cure was to cover the pile with plates of glass , which would allow heat to pass ... mean de- flection in the direction indicating warmth derived from all the " Comptes rendus , " xxii . 543 ...
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... mean deflection of 0.77 degrees ; so that the deduced heating influence of the moon appeared equal to half that shed ... means were avail- able than any at the disposal of previous investigators . One of the famous Parsonstown reflectors ...
... mean deflection of 0.77 degrees ; so that the deduced heating influence of the moon appeared equal to half that shed ... means were avail- able than any at the disposal of previous investigators . One of the famous Parsonstown reflectors ...
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