| 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... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1906 - 534 pages
...excitement, not such insanity as a torrid sun on the brain would produce. In Rees's Cyclopedia it is said, "The light of the moon, condensed by the best mirrors, produces no sensible heat upon the thermometer." I see some cows on the new Wheeler's Meadow, which a man is trying to drive... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1906 - 528 pages
...excitement, not such insanity as a torrid sun on the brain would produce. In Rees's Cyclopedia it is said, "The light of ' the moon, condensed by the best mirrors, produces no sensible heat upon the thermometer." I see some cows on the new Wheeler's Meadow, which a man is trying to drive... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - Literary Collections - 1993 - 372 pages
...not such insanity as a torrid sun on the brain would produce. In Rees Cyclopedia it is said—"The light of the moon, condensed by the best mirrors, produces no sensible heat upon the thermometer" I see some cows on the new Wheeler's meadow which a man is trying to drive... | |
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