 Wells, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible, that a thin mat, or any such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature...  The Quarterly Review - Page 94edited by - 1815Full view - About this book
 | William Charles Wells - Dew - 1815 - 168 pages
...prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, 1 ' Meteorolog. c. V5. by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had...acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed, perpendicularly, in the earth of a grassplat, 4 small sticks, and over their upper extremities,... | |
 | William Charles Wells - Dew - 1815 - 174 pages
...prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, * Meteorolog. c. vi. » by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had...acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed, perpendicularly, in the earth of a grassplat, 4 small sticks, and over their upper extremities.,... | |
 | William Charles Wells - Binocular vision - 1818 - 536 pages
...flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had...acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed, perpendicularly, in the earth of a grassplat, 4 small sticks, and over their upper extremities,... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 554 pages
...flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had...acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed, perpendicularly, in the earth of a grassplat, 4 small sticks, and over their upper extremities,... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Chemistry - 1821 - 436 pages
...doctrines of latent heat. « I had often," says Dr. Wells, " smiled, in the pride of half knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to...acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed perpendicularly, in the earth of a grassplat, four small sticks, and over their upper extremities,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 pages
...flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had...reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useleu. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed, perpendicularly,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1825 - 1250 pages
...flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had...acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed, perpendicularly, in the earth of a grass plot, four small sticks, and over their upper extremities,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Agriculture - 1826 - 1252 pages
...temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I liad learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become,...acquiring some precise information on this subject, I fixed, perpendicularly, in the earth of a grass plot, four small sticks, and over their upper extremities,... | |
 | Thomas Gill (patent-agent) - 1826 - 440 pages
...flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But when I had learned that bodies on the surface of the earth became, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the... | |
 | John Frederic Daniell - Meteorology - 1827 - 200 pages
...flimsy substance could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But when I had...for the practice which I had before deemed useless." The power of emitting heat in straight lines in every direction, independently of contact, may be regarded... | |
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