Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine, Svazek 31

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Edward Stanford, 1897
 

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Strana 100 - The Knowledge of Things Unknown : / Shewing the Effects of the PLANETS // and other Astronomical Constellations. // With the strange Events that befal Men, // Women, and Children, born under them.
Strana 39 - Lemoine has given (in the above paper) of the work to which he has devoted the best years of his life, and which has been rewarded by most gratifying success.
Strana 101 - THE KNOWLEDGE OF THINGS UNKNOWN, shewing the Effects of the Planets and other Astronomical Constellations, with the Strange Events that...
Strana 3 - METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY. THE Annual Meeting of this Society was held on "Wednesday evening, the isth instant, at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Mr.
Strana 151 - It adds to the interest of life ; it gives admirable training in simple scientific investigation and habits of thought ; it results in making the children more careful, more punctual, and neater in their other work ; and it lays a foundation on which, in after years, a more advanced study of meteorology may be built up. Systematic work on the practical use of the daily weather maps, as outlined in the Report of the Committee of Ten on Secondary School Studies...
Strana 97 - ... below such a lofty scale, and that too affected by such regular and conspiring motions, as at once changed a boyish pastime into a spectacle which greatly interested every beholder. . . . To obtain the information they wanted they contrived that thermometers, properly secured, and having bushy tassels of paper tied to them, should be let fall at stated periods from some of the higher kites, which was accomplished by the gradual singeing of a matchline.
Strana 97 - ... weather, no symptoms whatever of an electrical nature came under their observation. The sublime analysis of the thunder-bolt, and of the electricity of the atmosphere, lay yet entirely undiscovered, and was reserved two years longer for the sagacity of the celebrated Dr. Franklin.
Strana 3 - ... when one considers that any mountain must act as an obstacle which thrusts upward the strata of the atmosphere into a form almost like its own, so that some of the effects are very little different from those observed below ; while a tower like the Eiffel Tower thrusts itself in the air without obstructing its movements. It is the boast of the Royal Meteorological . Society that it is gradually covering the country with a network of private observing stations, and is collecting together, for...
Strana 3 - Sonnblick, the high-level observatory at Arequipa on the Andes, and that on Ben Nevis. An account was next given of tower observatories, together with some of the results obtained from the Eiffel Tower at Paris. Mr. Inwards, in concluding, said : " One can figure to oneself a tower piercing the air from any of the elevated tablelands of this country — Salisbury Plain, the Stray at Harrogate, or the Downs between Guildford and Dorking — and from which the most interesting results could not fail...
Strana 132 - Looking back over all the thermometric records we adhere to our original opinion that at no spot in England did the natural soil in its normal condition become frozen at the depth of 2 ft.

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