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 | Naval art and science - 1865 - 726 pages
...facts. He says " 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...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... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...surface. (336.) The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every m otion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced...become, in their turn, the support of animals and of man, and the sources of those great deposits of dynamical efficiency which are laid up for human... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...surface. (336.) 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...become, in their turn, the support of animals and of man, and the sources of those great deposits of dynamical efficiency which are laid up for human... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Astronomy - 1838 - 266 pages
...SUN ON THE EARTH. 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...become, in their turn, the support of animals, and of man. By his rays the waters of the sea are taken up, and made to circulate in vapor through the... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Astronomy - 1838 - 268 pages
...SUN ON THE EARTH. 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 ebctric equilibrium of the atmosphere, which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...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...become, in their turn, the support of animals and of man, and the sources, perhaps, of those great deposits of dynamical efficiency, which are laid up... | |
 | William Gordon - 1847 - 144 pages
...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...give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. 397. By the vivifying action of the sun's rays, vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter, and... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...surface. (399.) 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...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 - Cosmogony - 1850 - 580 pages
...And again — " 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...give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism, &c. &c The great mystery, however, is to conceive how so enormous a conflagration (if such it be),... | |
 | C. B. - Bible and geology - 1853 - 400 pages
...the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By their heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances...become, in their turn, the support of animals and of man. By them the waters of the sea are made to circulate in vapour through the air, producing springs... | |
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