 | Science - 1835 - 438 pages
...nearly to the condition of common days. It is thus shewn from the tables, that the chance of a change at new and full moon, compared with the chance on ordinary...influence of new and full moon, but none whatever to any special influence of the first and third quarters. With respect to the barometrical pressure, it is... | |
 | Science - 1835 - 442 pages
...nearly to the condition of common days. It is thus shewn from the tables, that the chance of a change at new and full moon, compared with the chance on ordinary...influence of new and full moon, but none whatever to any special influence of the first and third quarters. With respect to the barometrical pressure, it is... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1835 - 398 pages
...nearly to the condition of common days. It is thus shown from the tables, that the chance of a change at new and full moon, compared with the chance on ordinary...chance on the day following these two phases, compared witn the common days, is as 154 to 117. Upon the whole, therefore, this examination lends some support... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 pages
...three times. Upon the whole, an examination of the phenomena at Geneva lends some support to the common opinion of the influence of new and full moon, but none whatever to any special influence of the first and last quarters. Another mode of considering the effect of the moon... | |
 | Leonard Jenyns - Great Britain - 1858 - 442 pages
...which he obtained, and which it is not necessary to give in detail, seemed, " upon the whole, to lend some support to the vulgar opinion of the influence of new and full moon, but none whatever to any special influence of the first and third quarters." But then this support was very slight; and, as... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 618 pages
...the lunar phases than on other days. The results which he obtained seemed ' upon the whole to lend some support to the vulgar opinion of ' the influence of new and full moon, but none whatever to any ' special influence of the first and third quarters.' Against this slight support must be brought the... | |
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It is thus shewn from the tables, that the chance of a change at new and full moon, compared with the chance on ordinary days, is as 125 to 117, and that the chance on the day following these two phases, compared with the common days is as 154 to 117.... 