The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volumen9James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1870 |
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... miles . The visible heat rays , and those which are not intercepted by the atmosphere , we can now , thanks to modern means of thermo- metry , measure with some pretensions to accuracy . Whether the moon's light possesses perceptible ...
... miles . The visible heat rays , and those which are not intercepted by the atmosphere , we can now , thanks to modern means of thermo- metry , measure with some pretensions to accuracy . Whether the moon's light possesses perceptible ...
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... miles ; and from the south of Sweden in the north almost as far as the Pyrenees in the south , a distance of nearly 1,000 miles . In England it ap- proaches 1,000 feet in thickness , and in southern Russia it is as much as 600 feet ...
... miles ; and from the south of Sweden in the north almost as far as the Pyrenees in the south , a distance of nearly 1,000 miles . In England it ap- proaches 1,000 feet in thickness , and in southern Russia it is as much as 600 feet ...
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... miles of ocean , for the most part more than 1,000 fathoms deep , but imperfectly interrupted by banks . These banks rise into land in Iceland and the Faroe islands , and probably approach near the water surface somewhere about latitude ...
... miles of ocean , for the most part more than 1,000 fathoms deep , but imperfectly interrupted by banks . These banks rise into land in Iceland and the Faroe islands , and probably approach near the water surface somewhere about latitude ...
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... miles distant beneath a uniform surface temperature of about 52 ° . In such cases the cold area was paved with barren sandstone having a scanty boreal fauna , while in the adjacent warm area the bottom was mud , with an abundant ...
... miles distant beneath a uniform surface temperature of about 52 ° . In such cases the cold area was paved with barren sandstone having a scanty boreal fauna , while in the adjacent warm area the bottom was mud , with an abundant ...
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... miles from the corresponding place " obtained by the Astronomer Royal . The Aurora , the Zodiacal Light , and the Sun's Corona . - A series of very remarkable observations by Angstrom , the Swedish astronomer , and by Professor Young ...
... miles from the corresponding place " obtained by the Astronomer Royal . The Aurora , the Zodiacal Light , and the Sun's Corona . - A series of very remarkable observations by Angstrom , the Swedish astronomer , and by Professor Young ...
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