 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1824 - 224 Seiten
...nights, and of the different seasons. 20. Owing to the elliptical orbit of the earth, we are three millions of miles nearer to the sun in winter than in summer. 21. The heat of summer depends on the greater perpendicularity of the rays of the sun, and upon the... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1832 - 286 Seiten
...greatest and least distances from the sun, is about three millions of miles, the earth being about three millions of miles nearer to the sun in winter than in summer. 2t The reason why it is warmer in summer than in winter, notwithstanding the earth is further from... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1838 - 266 Seiten
...the same cause, is affected in the same manner as that of the earth. 866. The earth is about three millions of miles nearer to the sun in winter than in summer. 807. The heat of summer, therefore, cannot be caused by the near approach of the earth to the sun.... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1846 - 650 Seiten
...the Nautical Almanac, will at once point out to the mariner when he may expect a high spring-tide. The earth is nearly five millions of miles nearer...urged on by an elastic column of water a thousand fathoms' in depth, obstructions and retardations resulting from the diminution of depth, and inclined... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 506 Seiten
...they fall, as we readily perceive from the different climates on our globe. The earth is about three millions of miles nearer to the sun in winter than in summer, but the rays strike the northern hemisphere more obliquely in winter than in the other half of the... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1849 - 568 Seiten
...they fall, as we readily perceive, from the different climates on our globe. The earth is about three millions of miles nearer to the sun in winter than in summer; but the rays strike the northern hemisphere more obliquely in winter than in the other half of the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 418 Seiten
...the same cause, is affected in the same manner as that of the earth. 319. The earth is about three millions of miles nearer to the sun in winter than in summer. What is said of the motion of the heavenly bodies from perihelion to aphelion ? What is their motion... | |
 | Hugo Reid - 1850 - 156 Seiten
...above the horizon, after which his elevation again increases. 584. Although the earth is about three millions of miles nearer to the sun in winter than in summer, this makes no difference as to his influence in imparting heat, for as much heat is lost by our more... | |
 | Alexander Stewart - 1850 - 480 Seiten
...way ahove the horizon, after which his elevation again inereases. Although the earth is ahout three millions of miles nearer to the sun in winter than in summer, this makes no difference as to his influence in imparting heat, for as much heat is los; hy our more... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1850 - 408 Seiten
...the same cause, is affected in the same manner as that of the earth. 319. The earth is about three millions of miles nearer to the sun in winter than in summer. What is said of the motion of the heavenly bodies from perihelion to aphelion? What is their motion... | |
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... surface. It may therefore be concluded, that the heat of the earth above the zone of uniform temperature is entirely owing to the sun. The power of the solar rays depends much upon the manner in which they fall, as we readily perceive from the different... 
