 | 1833 - 468 pages
...unmitigated and burning sunshine fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time. Such a disposition of things must produce a constant transfer of whatever moisture may exist on its... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...of the environs of Naples, and Desmarest's of Auvergne. t From my own observations. — Author. Q 3 keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time. Such a disposition of things must produce a constant transfer of whatever moisture may exist on its... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...of the environs of Naples, and Desmarest's of Auvergne. t From my own observations.— Author. iJ 3 keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time. Such a disposition of things must produce a constant transfer of whatever moisture may exist on its... | |
 | Horticulture - 1834 - 550 pages
...unmitiga ted and burning sunshine, fiercer than an equatorial moon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time. Such a disposition of things must produce a constant transfer of whatever moisture may exist ou its... | |
 | William Hill Tucker - Bible - 1838 - 512 pages
...unmitigated and burning sunshine fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight ; and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time. Such a disposition of things must produce a constant transfer of whatever moisture may exist on its... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time. It is possible that evaporation on the one hand, and condensation on the other, may, to a certain extent,... | |
 | 1853 - 588 pages
...unmitigated and burning sunshine, fieicer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters for an equal time." It would seem, then, that though all else were equal, the variations in amount of light and heat would... | |
 | Science - 1842 - 496 pages
...unmitigated and burning sunshine fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time. Such a disposition of things must produce a constant transfer of whatever moisture may exist on its... | |
 | M. C. Best - Creation - 1844 - 204 pages
...unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight; and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time."* If then she is inhabited, an inference which appears to be universally admitted, her occupants must... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1871 - 598 pages
...unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than an equatorial noon continued for a whole fortnight, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters for an equal time." But what a scene is revealed to the eye! On all hands are vast worn out craters rising towards the... | |
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The climate of the moon must be very extraordinary : the alternation being that of unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters,... 
