Researches on the Past and Present History of the Earth's Atmosphere: Including the Latest Discoveries and Their Practical ApplicationsC. Griffin & Company, limited, 1901 - 194 Seiten |
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Seite ix - RESEARCHES ON THE PAST AND PRESENT HISTORY OF THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE. Including the latest Discoveries and their Practical Applications. BY DR. THOMAS LAMB PHIPSON. PART I. — The Earth's Atmosphere in Remote Geological Periods. PART II. — The Atmosphere of our present period. Appendices; Index. " The book should prove of interest to general readers, as well as to meteorologists and other students of science.
Seite 8 - contains the results of the latest discoveries connected with the vast aerial ocean which encircles the earth, the physical and chemical properties of the air, its geological history as far as we can trace it into the remotest ages of the past, and the useful deductions that can be drawn from all these facts.
Seite 16 - The air of our atmosphere consists chiefly of nitrogen and oxygen, in the proportion of 79 of the former, to 21 of the latter.
Seite 13 - Thus was established the antiphlogistic theory, that in every case of combustion oxygen combines with the burning body.
Seite 146 - The attraction of the sun and moon upon the waters of the ocean. The moon being nearest to the earth, her attraction is six times greater than that of the sun. This attraction of the moon raises the waters of the ocean as they come under her influence by the motion of the earth on its axis.
Seite 148 - Speaking of the influence of the sun's position upon the manifestation of the magnetic force of the earth...
Seite 107 - The effects produced on the chemical phenomena of respiration by re-breathing 35 litres (35 quarts) of air in a closed vessel during five minutes have passed away in less than six minutes after the breathing of fresh air has been resumed...
Seite 148 - that the sun may be a magnetic body, and that on that account, the force which impels the planets may be centred in the sun.
Seite 162 - ... peculiar clouds are worthy of note with the view of forecasting the probable occurrence of hailstorms. Vapor, when it ceases to exist as a gas in the air, assumes several 'The height of cnranlus cloud may often Ъе well observed and measured not only from the plain, Imt on mountains.
Seite 88 - in this useful contribution on the subject." The principal rain-band is a dark shading (in spectroscopes of small dispersive power) situated on the red or least refrangible side of the D lines of the spectrum, involving them and at times increasing or decreasing in intensity, and approaching or receding from the C line according to the nearness or quantity of rain. I will not especially refer to my statistics of rain-band and rainfall for last year, as I consider that the system adopted then for...