 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1856 - 384 pages
...Redfield, Reid, and Piddington. It may be admitted, indeed, that the winds show some tendency to circulate in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch ; but this tendency is not the predominant feature, and the centrifugal force thus resulting... | |
 | Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - Mathematics - 1855 - 628 pages
...horizontal diameter is taken as the origin of arcs, and the arcs arc estimated from this point around, in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch, through any number of quadrants. The quadrants, thus passed over, are numbered in their order... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1856 - 572 pages
...perpendicular to the track of the cyclone. In the cyclones of the Northern Hemisphere, the wind turns in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch, so that when a revolving storm approaches Britain, the mercury begins to fall, anda warmicind... | |
 | 1856 - 384 pages
...Redfield, Reid, and Piddington. It may be admitted, indeed, that the winds show some tendency to circulate in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch ; but this tendency is not the predominant feature, and the centrifugal force thus resulting... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1856 - 414 pages
...Redfield, Reid, and Piddington. It may be admitted, indeed, that the winds show some tendency to circulate in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch ; but this tendency is not the predominant feature, and the centrifugal force thus resulting... | |
 | Geology - 1859 - 384 pages
...one place. For several hundred miles around a violent storm, the wind circulates around the centre in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch. In Europe, as well as in the United States, on the north side of a great storm the prevalent... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1860 - 460 pages
...centre of the storm; not in the direction of radii, but spirally inward, circulating round the centre in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch. This tendency was very strongly indicated from the 24th to the 28th of December. From a comparison... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1860 - 414 pages
...inclines inward towards the area of least pressr.re, and at the same time circulates around the centre, in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch. 9. In Europe, as well as in the United States, on the north side of a great storm, the prevalent... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1860 - 468 pages
...centre of the storm; not in the direction of radii, but spirally inward, circulating round the centre in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch. This tendency was very strongly indicated from the 24th to the 28th of December. From a comparison... | |
 | Benjamin Silliman - Physics - 1861 - 780 pages
...inwards towards the area of least pressure, and, at the same time, it circulates around the centre in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch. Compare { 908. 6. On the horders of the storm, near the line of maximum pressure, the wind has... | |
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... in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch, with — and be this particularly noted — a constant tendency to turn inwards towards the centre of lowest barometer. 
