 | Arnold Guyot - Meteorology - 1858 - 658 pages
...Hypsometric Tables then will give the difference of level. As observation, however, has shown that the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea is not the same in all latitudes, it is necessary to take for such a comparison the mean height of... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Meteorology - 1868 - 326 pages
...sea varies with the latitude of the place. Near F1g. 7. North Lat1tude. South Lat1tude. the equator the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea is 29.927 English inches. In the northern hemisphere this pressure increases with the latitude up to... | |
 | Edward Jacob Boyce - English language - 1878 - 230 pages
...— îo-xiо, I bold, restrain, stop ; ovpov, urine. ISOBARS — lines connecting those places where the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea is the same, or lines of equal barometrical pressure. io-oc, equal ; ¿8аpos, weight, pressure. ISOCHEIM... | |
 | Edward Jacob Boyce - 1878 - 232 pages
...— «rX«/, I hold, restrain, stop ; ovpov, urine. ISOBARS — lines connecting those places where the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea is the same, or lines of equal barometrical pressure. Zb-os, equal ; ßаpos, weight, pressure. ISOCHEIM... | |
 | Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1885 - 410 pages
...endeavouring to restore the equilibrium. From the foregoing statements it may be safely inferred that ' the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea being the same in every part of the globe ' is by no means correct ; but, on the contrary, that every... | |
 | Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1885 - 418 pages
...endeavouring to restore the equilibrium. From the foregoing statements it may be safely inferred that ' the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea being the same in every part of the globe ' is by no means correct ; but, on the contrary, that every... | |
 | Jens Braage Halvorsen - Norwegian literature - 1888 - 864 pages
...— 95: Letter on terrestrial magnetism. — //. (1851), S. loo — 103: On a formula representing the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea. (Ogsaa trykt i Transactions of the Royal Soc. of Edinb. XVI. 237—40). I Proceedings of the Royal... | |
 | Arnold James Cooley - Formulas, recipes, etc - 1892 - 920 pages
...is suspended, resembling two weights in equilibrio at the opposite extremities of the same balauce. The mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea, in England, is 28'6 inches ( = about 33J feet of water); and as a cubic inch of mercury weighs 3425-02... | |
 | Arnold James Cooley - 1892 - 920 pages
...is suspended, resembling two weights in equilibrio at the opposite extremities of the same balance. The mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea, in England, is 28'6 inches ( = about 33i feet of water); and as a cubic inch of mercury weighs 3425-92... | |
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From the foregoing statements it may be safely inferred that " the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea being the same in every part of the globe... 
