 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pagina’s
...and the phenomena of solar eclipses. Hence its climate must be very extraordinary ; the alternation being that of unmitigated and burning sunshine fiercer...equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the * Sec Breislak's map of the environs of Naples, and Desmarest's of Auvergne. t From my own observations.—... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 pagina’s
...and the phenomena of solar eclipses. Hence its climate must be very extraordinary ; the alternation being that of unmitigated and burning sunshine fiercer...equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the * See Breislak's map of the environs of Naples, and Desmarest's of Auvergne. t From my own observations.... | |
 | 1834 - 550 pagina’s
...extraordinary; the alternation being that of unmitiga ted and burning sunshine, fiercer than an equatorial moon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the keenest severity...a constant transfer of whatever moisture may exist ou its surface, from the point beiR-uth the sun to that opposite, by distillation in racito, after... | |
 | Thomas Spofford - 1835 - 84 pagina’s
...solar eclipses. Hence the climate of the moon must be very extraordinary ; the alteration being from unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, to the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time. It is... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pagina’s
...clouds, nor any indications of an atmosphere. Hence itsclimatemustbeveryextraordinary,the alternation being that of unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer...exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time. It is possible that evaporation on the one hand, and condensation on the other, may, to a certain extent,... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1839 - 598 pagina’s
...climates must be very extraordinary, unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than our equatorial sun, for a whole fortnight; and the keenest severity of frost far exceeding that of our polar regions, for an equal space of time. It is possible that evaporation on the one hand, and condensation... | |
 | 1839 - 608 pagina’s
...climates must be very extraordinary, unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than our equatorial sun, for a whole fortnight ; and the keenest severity of frost far exceeding that of our polar regions, for an equal space of time. It is possible that evaporation on the one band, and condensation... | |
 | 1853 - 588 pagina’s
...must be very extraordinary — the alteration being that of unmitigated and burning sunshine, fieicer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight,...exceeding that of our polar winters for an equal time." It would seem, then, that though all else were equal, the variations in amount of light and heat would... | |
 | M. C. Best - 1844 - 204 pagina’s
...829. other indications of an atmosphere; hence its climate must be very extraordinary; the alternation being that of unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer...exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time."* If then she is inhabited, an inference which appears to be universally admitted, her occupants must... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1871 - 598 pagina’s
...seen; hence as Herschel says, " The climate of the moon must be very extraordinary, the alternation being that of unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer...exceeding that of our polar winters for an equal time." But what a scene is revealed to the eye! On all hands are vast worn out craters rising towards the... | |
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The climate of the moon must be very extraordinary : the alternation being that of unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters,... 
