It having occurred to me that, if my theory was true, namely, "that the phenomena of the aurora borealis were occasioned by the action of the sun, when below the pole, on the surrounding masses of coloured ice, by its rays being reflected from the points... Journal of the Franklin Institute - Seite 611856Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1855 - 722 Seiten
...were occasioned by the action of the sun, when below the pole, on the surrounding masses of coloured ice, by its rays being reflected from the points of...the pole which were before invisible." The phenomena misjht be artificially produced : to accomplish this I placed a powerful lamp, to represent the sun,... | |
| 1855 - 650 Seiten
...were occasioned by the action of the sun, when below the pole, on the surrounding masses of coloured ice, by its rays being reflected from the points of...powerful lamp to represent the sun, having a lens, at the vocal distance of which I placed a rectified terrestrial globe, on which bruised glass, of the various... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1855 - 640 Seiten
...were occasioned by the action of the sun, when below the pule, on the surrounding masses of coloured ice, by its rays being reflected from the points of...powerful lamp to represent the sun, having a lens, at the vocal distance of which I placed a rectified terrestrial globe, on which bruised glass, of the various... | |
| 1855 - 626 Seiten
...were occasioned by the action of the sun, when below the pole, on the surrounding masses of coloured ice, by its rays being reflected from the points of...accomplish this, I placed a powerful lamp to represent the eun, having a lens, at the vocal distance of which I placed a rectified terrestrial globe, on which... | |
| 1855 - 594 Seiten
...were occasioned by the action of the sun, when below the pole, on the surrounding masses of coloied ice, by its rays being reflected from the points of...incidence to clouds above the pole which were before mVOL. XXXVI.— NO. IV. 1069 visible. He showed how the phenomena might be artificially produced. To... | |
| 1856 - 428 Seiten
...origin of the Aurora Borealis, which he first promulgated some years ago. Sir John Ross says : — " It having occurred to me that, if my theory was true,...at the focal distance of which I placed a rectified terrcstial globe, on which bruised glass, of the various colors we have seen in Baffin's Bay, was placed,... | |
| 1856 - 426 Seiten
...origin of the Aurora Borealis, which he first promulgated some years ago. Sir John Ross says : — " It having occurred to me that, if my theory was true,...at the focal distance of which I placed a rectified terrestial globe, on which bruised glass, of the various colors we have seen in Baffin's Bay, was placed,... | |
| 1856 - 334 Seiten
...were occasioned by the action of the sun, when below the pole, on the surrounding masses of coloured ice, by its rays being reflected from the points of...terrestrial globe, on which bruised glass, of the various colours we have seen in Baffin's Bay, was placed, to represent the coloured icebergs we had seen in... | |
| Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - 1856 - 322 Seiten
...were occasioned by the action of the sun, when below the pole, on the surrounding masses of coloured ice, by its rays being reflected from the points of...terrestrial globe, on which bruised glass, of the various colours we have seen in Baffin's Bay, was placed, to represent the coloured icebergs we had seen in... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1856 - 550 Seiten
...were occasioned by the action of the sun, when below the pole, on the surrounding masses of coloured ice, by its rays being reflected from the points of...clouds above the pole which were before invisible," the author stated his impression that the phenomena might be artificially produced. To accomplish this,... | |
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