 The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial  The Horticultural Register - Página 1241835Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1906 - 660 páginas
...the chemical changes in protoplasm. In a word, as Sir John Herschel put it, so far back as 1833, ' the sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...motion which takes place on the surface of the earth.' At one time it was thought that the majority of infusoria and tissuecells were not affected by light... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 páginas
...art. 330., when the fluid from which it subsides is warm, and losing heat from its surface. (336.) The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter, and become, in... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1838 - 444 páginas
...in art. 330, when the fluid from which it subsides is warm, and losing heat from its surface. (336.) The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter, and become, in... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1838 - 266 páginas
...penumbra, while the solid body, shaded by the clouds, reflects none. INFLUENCE OF THE SUN ON THE EARTH. The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...atmosphere, which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action, vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter, and become,... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 páginas
...than that our hand should communicate motion to a stone with which it is dernonstrably not in contact. The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of this earth. By its heat are produced almost all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1842 - 472 páginas
...in art. 330, when the fluid from which it subsides is warm, and losing heat from its surface. (336.) The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter, and become, in... | |
 | William Gordon - 1847 - 144 páginas
...influence, as days and seasons, which are adapted to the constitution of the living creation. 395. The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. 396. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 672 páginas
...in art. 386, when the fluid from which it subsides is warm, and losing heat from its surface. (399.) The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of lightning, and probably also to those of terrestrial magnetism and the aurora. By their vivifying action... | |
 | Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1850 - 642 páginas
...ignited solids appear only as black spots on the disc of the sun, when held between it and the eye The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter, and become, in... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1851 - 492 páginas
...in art. 330, when the fluid from which it subsides is warm, and losing heat from its surface. (336.) The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter, and become, in... | |
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