Scientific Use of the Imagination and Other EssaysLongmans, Green and Company, 1872 - 63 páginas |
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... intensity , will still be white . The whiteness of Alpine snow with the sun shining upon it , is barely tolerable to the eye . The same snow under an overcast firmament is still white . Scientific Use of the Imagination . 13.
... intensity , will still be white . The whiteness of Alpine snow with the sun shining upon it , is barely tolerable to the eye . The same snow under an overcast firmament is still white . Scientific Use of the Imagination . 13.
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... Alpine summit , for instance , or to the top of Snowdon - and see the sun shining on the clouds , they appear dazzlingly white . Ordinary clouds , in fact , divide the solar light impinging on them into two parts - a reflected part and ...
... Alpine summit , for instance , or to the top of Snowdon - and see the sun shining on the clouds , they appear dazzlingly white . Ordinary clouds , in fact , divide the solar light impinging on them into two parts - a reflected part and ...
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... Alpine skies , the transmitted light gives us at sunset the warm crimson of the Alpine snows . The phenomena certainly occur as if our atmosphere were a medium rendered slightly turbid by the mechanical sus- pension of exceedingly small ...
... Alpine skies , the transmitted light gives us at sunset the warm crimson of the Alpine snows . The phenomena certainly occur as if our atmosphere were a medium rendered slightly turbid by the mechanical sus- pension of exceedingly small ...
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... Alpine lakes has been shown to be in part due to this cause . Prof. Roscoe has noticed several striking cases of a similar kind . In a very remarkable paper the late Principal Forbes showed that steam issuing from the safety - valve of ...
... Alpine lakes has been shown to be in part due to this cause . Prof. Roscoe has noticed several striking cases of a similar kind . In a very remarkable paper the late Principal Forbes showed that steam issuing from the safety - valve of ...
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... Alpine horizons . I do not , however , point to the gross smoke arising from coal as an illustration of the action of small particles , because such smoke soon absorbs and destroys the waves of blue instead of scattering them so as to ...
... Alpine horizons . I do not , however , point to the gross smoke arising from coal as an illustration of the action of small particles , because such smoke soon absorbs and destroys the waves of blue instead of scattering them so as to ...
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