 | William Charles Wells - 1815 - 168 pagina’s
...atmosphere, 1 ' Meteorolog. c. V5. by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become,...subject, I fixed, perpendicularly, in the earth of a grassplat, 4 small sticks, and over their upper extremities, which were 6 inches above the grass, and... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1815 - 174 pagina’s
...atmosphere, * Meteorolog. c. vi. » by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become,...subject, I fixed, perpendicularly, in the earth of a grassplat, 4 small sticks, and over their upper extremities., which were 6 inches above the grass,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 pagina’s
...temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone 1 thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become,...acquiring some precise information on this subject, 1 drove into the earth of a grassplat four slender sticks, in such a manner, as to make them rise six... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 536 pagina’s
...temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become,...subject, I fixed, perpendicularly, in the earth of a grassplat, 4 small sticks, and over their upper extremities, which were 6 inches above the grass, and... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 554 pagina’s
...temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become,...subject, I fixed, perpendicularly, in the earth of a grassplat, 4 small sticks, and over their upper extremities, which were 6 inches above the grass, and... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pagina’s
...the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone 1 thought them liable to be injured. But when I had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become,...subject, I fixed perpendicularly, in the earth of a grassplat, four small sticks, and over their upper extremities, whioh were six inches above the grass,... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pagina’s
...the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But when 1 had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become,...acquiring some precise information on this subject, 1 fixed perpendicularly, in the earth of a grass•>lat, four small sticks, and over their ирV>er... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 pagina’s
...temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become,...reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useleu. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed, perpendicularly,... | |
 | Thomas Gill (patent-agent) - 1826 - 440 pagina’s
...thought them liable to be 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,...for the practice which I had before deemed useless." The power of emitting heat in straight lines in every direction, independently of contact, may be regarded... | |
 | John Frederic Daniell - 1827 - 200 pagina’s
...the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But when I had learned that bodies on the surface of the earth become,...for the practice which I had before deemed useless." The power of emitting heat in straight lines in every direction, independently of contact, may be regarded... | |
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... at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I... 
