 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...unmitigated and burning sunshine fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time. Such a disposition of things must produce a constant transfer of whatever moisture may exist on its... | |
 | 1850 - 600 pages
...unmitigated and burning sunshine fiercer than' an equatorial noon, continued for a .whole fortnight, and the keenest severity of frost far exceeding that of our polar winters for an equal time." It would seem, then, that though all else were equal, the variations in amount of light and heat, would... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1850 - 604 pages
...unmitigated and1 burning sunshine fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the keenest severity of frost far exceeding that of our polar winters for an equal time." It would seem, then, that though all else were equal, the variations in amount of light and heat, would... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1851 - 744 pages
...unmitigated and burning sunshine fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal tune. Such a disposition of things must produce a constant transfer of whatever moisture may exist... | |
 | George Wilson - Electricity - 1852 - 138 pages
...unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time." It would seem, then, that though all else were equal, the variations in amount of light and hea*t, would... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1855 - 662 pages
...unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight; and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time." How dreary the idea of having rational creatures consigned to such a country! The eminent Dr. Lardner,... | |
 | William Williams - Cosmogony - 1855 - 396 pages
...the alternation being that of unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than an equatorial noon, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters." The first quotation is from Davis?s " Great Harmonia ; " the second, from the " Plurality of Worlds... | |
 | Mary Ward - Astronomy - 1859 - 310 pages
...unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time.J The Moon's day and night are in fact also its summer and winter. Observations of the Moon's... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1855 - 264 pages
...unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time. — HERSCHF.L. — Treatise on Astronomy. The notion of digging caverns to seek shelter in from the... | |
 | George Wilson - Chemistry - 1862 - 408 pages
...unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time.' It would seem, then, that though all else were equal, the variations in amount of light and heat would... | |
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The climate of the moon must be very extraordinary : the alternation being that of unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters,... 
