The Forms of Water in Clouds & Rivers, Ice & GlaciersH.S. King & Company, 1873 - 192 стор. |
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... observing and studying any natural oc- currence alone , but takes pleasure in connecting every natural fact with what has gone before it , and with what is to come after it . 2. Thus , when we enter upon the study of rivers and glaciers ...
... observing and studying any natural oc- currence alone , but takes pleasure in connecting every natural fact with what has gone before it , and with what is to come after it . 2. Thus , when we enter upon the study of rivers and glaciers ...
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... Observation enables you to answer the question . Rain does not come from a clear sky . It comes from clouds . But what are clouds ? Is there nothing you are acquainted with which they resemble ? You discover at once a likeness between ...
... Observation enables you to answer the question . Rain does not come from a clear sky . It comes from clouds . But what are clouds ? Is there nothing you are acquainted with which they resemble ? You discover at once a likeness between ...
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... observations you will not fail to notice that the speed of its disappearance depends upon the character of the day . In humid weather the cloud hangs long and lazily in the air ; in dry weather it is rapidly licked up . What has become ...
... observations you will not fail to notice that the speed of its disappearance depends upon the character of the day . In humid weather the cloud hangs long and lazily in the air ; in dry weather it is rapidly licked up . What has become ...
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... observations and calculations of ordinary wave - motion . It was necessary to know how both water - waves and sound - waves are formed and propagated . It was above all things necessary to know how waves , passing through the same ...
... observations and calculations of ordinary wave - motion . It was necessary to know how both water - waves and sound - waves are formed and propagated . It was above all things necessary to know how waves , passing through the same ...
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... observation and experi- ment . And this is the spirit in which our further studies are to be pursued . § 6. Oceanic Distillation . 56. The sun , you know , is never exactly overhead in England . But at the equator , and within certain ...
... observation and experi- ment . And this is the spirit in which our further studies are to be pursued . § 6. Oceanic Distillation . 56. The sun , you know , is never exactly overhead in England . But at the equator , and within certain ...
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