 | Medicine - 1880 - 762 pages
...great danger should be from external cold? ... It is because their small bodies have large surfaces : a small body has a larger surface in proportion to its bulk than a large one. . . . What has that to do with it? From the surface of our body we lose heat. It is there that... | |
 | William Henry Corfield - 1880 - 410 pages
...they are liable to danger from external cold ? It is because their small bodies have large surfaces ; a small body has a larger surface, in proportion to its bulk, than a large one. If you have a lump of lead, and were told to divide it so as to make the largest amount of surface,... | |
 | 1880 - 764 pages
...great danger should be from external cold? ... It is because their small bodies have Urge surfaces : a small body has a larger surface in proportion to its bulk than a large one. . . . What has that to do with it ? From the surface of our body we lose heat. It is there that... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University. Biological Laboratory - Biology - 1893 - 370 pages
...which are bathed on all sides by food, like the pelagic protophytes, small size is advantageous, since a small body has a larger surface in proportion to its bulk than a large one ; and the pelagic plants are, as I have shown, most favorably placed for rapid growth when new... | |
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To plants which are bathed on all sides by food, like the pelagic protophytes, small size is advantageous, since a small body has a larger surface in proportion to its bulk than a large one... 