 | Science - 1866 - 554 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." If water in any of the forms in which we know it, existed on our satellite, the heat of the lunar day... | |
 | John Brown - 1866 - 602 pages
...unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, and e nations and seized their wealth at pleasure (Is. xxxvii. 25). The Jews drinking the waters of possible that certain circumstances may, to some extent, preserve an equilibrium of temperature and... | |
 | Science - 1866 - 564 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." If water in any of the forms in which we know it, existed on our satellite, the heat of the lunar day... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1849 - 588 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... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1869 - 658 pages
...alternation being that of unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than that of an equatoreal noon ; and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time." And again, " . . . . the surface of the full moon exposed to us must necessarily be very much heated,... | |
 | Mary Ward (Hon.) - 1869 - 220 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... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke - 1869 - 406 pages
...giving an alternation in fortnightly periods of burning sunshine fiercer than an equatorial noon, and the keenest severity of frost far exceeding that of our polar winters. Neither has any indication of vegetable growth, or any form of life analogous to kthose on the earth,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1870 - 780 pages
...alternation being that of unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than that of an equatorial noon, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters for an equal time." And again, "the surface of the full moon eiposed to us must necessarily bo very much heated, possibly... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1870 - 780 pages
...¿:'--mation being that of unmitigated and burnnig sunshine, fiercer than that of an equatorial noon, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters for an equal time." And again, "the surface of the full Boon exposed to us must necessarily be very л'-h heated, possibly... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1870 - 776 pages
...alternation being that of unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than that of an equatorial noon, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters for an eqnal time." And again, "the surface of the full moon exposed to us must necessarily be very much heated,... | |
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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,... 
