 In the circumstances, and taking fully into account all possibilities of greater density in the sun's interior, and of greater or less activity of radiation in past ages, it would.  Advanced Physiography - Page 133by John Thornton (M.A.) - 1890 - 342 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Science - 1902 - 1030 pages
...homogeneous sun, or 20,000.000 years, "taking fully into account all possibilities of greater densitj' in the sun's interior, and of greater or less activity of radiation in past ages." Lord Kelvin's computation by Fourier's method gives about 100,000,000 years for the earth's age,f assuming... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1889 - 942 pages
...form was capable of existing there." Sir William Thomson states his conclusions on this point thus: " In the circumstances, and taking fully into account...and of greater or less activity of radiation in past i ages, it would. I think, be exceedingly rash to assume as probable anything more than 20,000,000... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1889 - 642 pages
...only twelve millions, and similarly with all our other time reckonings based on Pouillet's results. In the circumstances, and taking fully into account...interior, and of greater or less activity of radiation in post ages, it would, I think, bo exceedingly rash to assume ae probable anything more than twenty million... | |
 | Sir Richard Gregory - Geomorphology - 1893 - 320 pages
...we are now acquainted with on the earth. He finds that, ' By the most recent calculation, and taking into account all possibilities of greater density in the sun's interior and of greater and less activity of radiation in past ages, it would be rash to assume as probable anything more than... | |
 | James Croll - Geological time - 1896 - 570 pages
...known form was capable of existing there. Lord Kelvin states his conclusions on this point thus : " In the circumstances, and taking fully into account...exceedingly rash to assume as probable anything more than 20,000,000 years of the sun's light in the past history of the earth, or to reckon on more than 5 or... | |
 | 1898 - 210 pages
...to which mathematical physics has arrived, can be stated in the words of Lord Kelvin as follows : " In the circumstances, and taking fully into account...activity of radiation in past ages, it would, I think, be exceeding rash to assume as probable anything more than twenty million years of the sun's light in... | |
 | Earth sciences - 1902 - 522 pages
...solar constant, getting 1 2,000,000 years for the age of a homogeneous sun, or 20,000,000 years, " taking fully into account all possibilities of greater...greater or less activity of radiation in past ages." Lord Kelvin's computation by Fourier's method gives about 100,000,000 years for the earth's age,f assuming... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Astronomy - 1903 - 364 pages
...past. In a lecture at the Royal Institution (published in Nature Series, in 1889), Lord Kelvin says: "It would, I think, be exceedingly , , ,. rash to...assume as probable anything more than twenty million } .\it' ' i , * '• ,••' '" years of the sun's light in the past history of the earth, or to '... | |
 | Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 906 pages
...Langley 's result, the former twenty million years reduced to twelve. Thomson concluded that it would 'be exceedingly rash to assume as probable anything...the sun's light in the past history of the earth'. Similarly, for the future, he thought it unwise 'to reckon on more than five or six million years of... | |
 | Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 906 pages
...Langley 's result, the former twenty million years reduced to twelve. Thomson concluded that it would 'be exceedingly rash to assume as probable anything...the sun's light in the past history of the earth'. Similarly, for the future, he thought it unwise 'to reckon on more than five or six million years of... | |
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