| James Rennie - 1833 - 422 pages
...say that the body is equally warm on a cold winter's morning and on the most sultry of the dog-days, as to affirm that the sun is stationary contrary to...example, Captain Parry found that when the air was from 3° to 32° at Winter Isle, lat. 66° 11' N., the interior temperature of the foxes when killed was... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1831 - 690 pages
...body is equally warm on a cold winter's morning as on the most sultry of the dog-days, as to affirm the sun is stationary, contrary to the apparent evidence of the senses, yet the one is as well ascertained as the other. For example, Captain Parry found, that when the air was from 3°... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 1254 pages
...say that the body is equally warm on a cold winter's morning and on the most sultry of the dog-days, as to affirm that the sun is stationary contrary to...evidence of the senses ; yet the one truth is as well ascertaint'd as the other. For example, Captain Parry founil that when the air was from 30° to 32P... | |
| Shilling - 1857 - 98 pages
...that the body is equally warm on a cold winter morning as on the most sultry of the dog-days, than to affirm that the sun is stationary, contrary to the apparent evidence of the senses ; yet the one is as well ascertained as the other. For example, at Ceylon, Dr. Davy found that the temperature of... | |
| John Timbs - 1857 - 444 pages
...that the hody is equally warm on a cold winter morning, as on the most sultry of the dog-days, than to affirm that the sun is stationary, contrary to the apparent evidence of the senses ; yet the one is as well ascertained as the other. For example, at Ceylon, Dr. Davy found that the temperature of... | |
| John Timbs - 1858 - 296 pages
...that the body is equally warm on a cold winter morning as on the most sultry of the dog-days, than to affirm that the sun is stationary, contrary to the apparent evidence of the senses ; yet the one is as well ascertained as the other. For example, at Ceylon, Dr. Davy found that the temperature of... | |
| John Timbs - 1869 - 280 pages
...that the body is equally warm ou a cold winter morning as on the most sultry of the dog-days, than to affirm that the sun is stationary, contrary to the apparent evidence of the senses ; yet the one is as well ascertained as the other. For example, at Ceylon, Dr. Davy found that the temperature of... | |
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