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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... atmosphere . Unless the lunar globe be composed of materials vastly different from those that form the earth and we are not justified in supposing such a diversity- it must receive heat from the sun , and its surface must be raised in ...
... atmosphere . Unless the lunar globe be composed of materials vastly different from those that form the earth and we are not justified in supposing such a diversity- it must receive heat from the sun , and its surface must be raised in ...
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... atmosphere . In this case they must be effective in evaporating high clouds , dis- persing such as are light , raising and thinning those that are dense . Herschel ascribed to this influence the tendency of the full moon to clear the ...
... atmosphere . In this case they must be effective in evaporating high clouds , dis- persing such as are light , raising and thinning those that are dense . Herschel ascribed to this influence the tendency of the full moon to clear the ...
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... atmosphere . And , as we have said , he considered this as a cause for the small amount of lunar warmth felt upon the earth . Mr. Park Harrison adopts this hypothesis to explain the high temperatures which he shows to occur at moon's ...
... atmosphere . And , as we have said , he considered this as a cause for the small amount of lunar warmth felt upon the earth . Mr. Park Harrison adopts this hypothesis to explain the high temperatures which he shows to occur at moon's ...
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... atmosphere , we can now , thanks to modern 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 ...
... atmosphere , we can now , thanks to modern 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 ...
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... atmosphere . The second source is that from which we might expect the most marked results . Observations were made during the winter and spring of 1868-69 , on sixteen nights in all , on some of which the moon was several days from full ...
... atmosphere . The second source is that from which we might expect the most marked results . Observations were made during the winter and spring of 1868-69 , on sixteen nights in all , on some of which the moon was several days from full ...
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