Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina 82
... vapour diffused in the air , is produced by the first few strokes of the pump . It is , as might be expected , possible to produce clouds in this way with the vapours of other liquids than water . In the course of some experiments on ...
... vapour diffused in the air , is produced by the first few strokes of the pump . It is , as might be expected , possible to produce clouds in this way with the vapours of other liquids than water . In the course of some experiments on ...
Pagina 83
... vapour may be regarded as divided into a number of poly- hedra , the particles along the bounding surfaces of which move in opposite directions when precipitation actually sets in . Every cloud - particle has consumed a polyhedron of vapour ...
... vapour may be regarded as divided into a number of poly- hedra , the particles along the bounding surfaces of which move in opposite directions when precipitation actually sets in . Every cloud - particle has consumed a polyhedron of vapour ...
Pagina 84
... vapour to that of its liquid . If the vapour were light , and the liquid heavy , other things being equal , the cloud- particle would be smaller than if the vapour were heavy and the liquid light . There would evidently be more ...
... vapour to that of its liquid . If the vapour were light , and the liquid heavy , other things being equal , the cloud- particle would be smaller than if the vapour were heavy and the liquid light . There would evidently be more ...
Pagina 208
... most part produced by the chilling of the air through its own expansion . When thus chilled , the aqueous vapour diffused through it , which is previously unseen , is precipi- 208 [ 1864 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
... most part produced by the chilling of the air through its own expansion . When thus chilled , the aqueous vapour diffused through it , which is previously unseen , is precipi- 208 [ 1864 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
Pagina 209
... vapour , and a moment's reflection will make it clear that the size of the cloud - particles . must depend , not only on the size of the vapour polyhedron , but on the relation of the density of the vapour to that of its liquid . If the ...
... vapour , and a moment's reflection will make it clear that the size of the cloud - particles . must depend , not only on the size of the vapour polyhedron , but on the relation of the density of the vapour to that of its liquid . If the ...
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Pagina 460 - Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
Pagina 292 - Did the thought which now ran back to it simply return to its primeval home ? If so, had we not better recast our definitions of matter and force; for if life and thought be the very flower of both, any definition which omits life and thought must be inadequate, if not untrue.
Pagina 190 - Ever young, ever mighty — with the vigor of a thousand worlds still within him — the real sculptor was even then climbing up the eastern sky. It was he who raised aloft the waters which cut out these ravines; it was he who planted the glaciers on the...
Pagina 291 - I tried to look at this universal cloud, containing within itself the prediction of all that has since occurred ; I tried to imagine it as the seat of those forces whose action was to issue in solar and stellar systems, and all that they involve. Did that formless fog contain potentially the sadness with which I regarded 458 FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE. the Matterhorn ? Did the thought which now ran back to it simply return to its primeval home...