 | John Pinkerton - Africa - 1804 - 694 pages
...light of the sun : but from experiments made by M.Bouc.uLH,he concluded it to be 300,000 times less. The light of the moon, condensed by the best mirrors,...produces no sensible effect upon the thermometer. Our earth, in the course of a month, shows the same phases to the lunarians, as the moon does to us... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...of the moon, condensed by the best mirrors, produces во sensible effect upon the thermometer. Our earth, in the course of a month, shows the same phases...does to us ; the earth is at the full, at the time of the new moon, ami at new, at the time of tlu? full moon. The surface of the earth bring about thirteen... | |
 | Samuel Vince - Astronomy - 1811 - 260 pages
...but, from some experiments of M. Bouguer, he concluded it to be three hundred thousand times less. The light of the moon, condensed by the best mirrors,...produces no sensible effect upon the thermometer. Our earth, in the course of a month, shows the same phases to the Lunarians as the moon does to us... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - Geography - 1814 - 696 pages
...light, concludes that 300,000 moons would not make a stronger light, than that of clear bright sunshine. The. light of the moon condensed by the best mirrors...same phases to the lunarians, as the moon does to rs ; the earth is at the full, at the time of new moon, and new at the time of full moon. The surface... | |
 | Samuel Vince - Astronomia - 1814 - 602 pages
...of the sun ; but from some experiments of M. BOUGUER, he concluded it to be 30O thousand times less. The light of the moon, condensed by the best mirrors,...produces no sensible effect upon the thermometer. Our earth, in the course of a month, shows the same phases to the Lunarians, as the moon does to us... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 358 pages
...sun; but from experiments made by M. Bouguer, he concluded it to be three hundred thousand times less. The light of the moon, condensed by the best mirrors, produces no sensible effect upon the thermometer Our earth, in the course of a month, shews the same phases to the lunaries, as the moon does to us;... | |
 | Samuel Vince - Hydrostatics - 1820 - 472 pages
...but, from some experiments of M. Bouguer, he concluded it to be three hundred thousand times less. The light of the moon, condensed by the best mirrors,...produces no sensible effect upon the thermometer. Our earth, in the course of a month, shows the same phases to the Lunarians, as the moon does to us;... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 356 pages
...sun; but from experiments made by M. Bouguer, he concluded it to be three hundred thousand times less. The light of the moon, condensed by the best mirrors, produces no sensible effect upon the thermometer Our earth, in the course of a month, shews the same phases to the lunaries, as the moon does to us;... | |
 | Poplar House Academy - 1826 - 100 pages
...of moon light at full moon, has been calculated to be 300000 times less than the light df the sun. The light of the moon condensed by the best mirrors,...produces no sensible effect upon the thermometer. 103. Our earth, in the course of a month, shews the same phases to the lunarians as the moon does to... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 448 pages
...would, therefore, require 104,368 full moons to give a light and heat equal to that of the sun at noon. The light of the moon condensed by the best mirrors produces no sensible heat upon the thermometer. Dr. Smith in his work on optics, endeavours to show that the light of the... | |
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Smith, the strength of moon-light, at the full moon, is ninety thousand times less than the light of the sun; but, from some experiments of M. Bouguer, he concluded it to be three hundred thousand times less. The light of the moon, condensed by the best... 
