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" The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of lightning,... "
Outlines of Astronomy - Page 231
by John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 620 pages
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Astronomy

sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...art. 330., when the fluid from which it subsides is warm, and losing heat from its surface. (336.) The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter, and...
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Astronomy

Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 pages
...losing heat from its surface. (336.) The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every m otion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By...the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter, and...
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The Horticultural Register, Volume 3

1834 - 550 pages
...mitigate the extreme severity of both climates. — flerschel on Astnm. — Lard. Cyclop. SCN'S RAYS. — The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action, vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter,...
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Youth's Book of Astronomy

John Lee Comstock - 1838 - 266 pages
...clouds, reflects none. How is it believed these spots are made ? INFLUENCE OF THE SUN ON THE EARTH. The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...the atmosphere, which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action, vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter,...
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Youth's Book of Astronomy

John Lee Comstock - 1838 - 268 pages
...penumbra, while the solid body, shaded by the clouds, reflects none. INFLUENCE OF THE SUN ON THE EARTH. The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...produced all winds, and those disturbances in the ebctric equilibrium of the atmosphere, which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By...
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A sketch of the the life of the rev. John Brown, sometime minister ... in ...

Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...than that our hand should communicate motion to a stone with which it is demonstrably not in contact. The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of this earth. By its heat are produced almost all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium...
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Demonstrations of the divine pefections, as manifested in the material universe

William Gordon - 1847 - 144 pages
...influence, as days and seasons, which are adapted to the constitution of the living creation. 395. The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. 396. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the...
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The Dynamical Theory of the Formation of the Earth, Volume 1

Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1850 - 642 pages
...ignited solids appear only as black spots on the disc of the sun, when held between it and the eye The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter, and...
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Outlines of a System of Mechanical Philosophy: Being a Research Into the ...

Samuel Elliott Coues - 1851 - 426 pages
...quote from Sir John Herschell a description of the supposed immense range of the sun's influence. " The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the globe. By its heat are produced all winds, and the disturbances which "result in the changes of the...
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Geology in Its Relation to Revealed Religion

C. B. - 1853 - 400 pages
...consequently, entitled to no credit or consideration. " The sun's rays," says Sir John Herschel, " are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By their heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere,...
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