The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of lightning,... Outlines of astronomy - Page 259by sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1864 - 729 pagesFull view - About this book
| Brooklyn Ethical Association - Conduct of life - 1895 - 440 pages
...1833 needs little modification to bring it into harmony with the latest conclusions of sciencer — "The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost...give rise to the phenomena of lightning, and probably * Forms of Water, p. 7. also to terrestrial magnetism and the aurora. By their vivifying action vegetables... | |
| American periodicals - 1873 - 864 pages
...force, including vitality, on the whole earth. " The sun's rays," said Sir John Herschel in 1833,* "are the ultimate source of almost every motion which...the phenomena of lightning, and probably, also, to terrestrial magnetism and the aurora. By their vivifying action vegetables are enabled to draw support... | |
| John Hays Gardiner - English language - 1900 - 520 pages
...ago, the following remarkable passage, bearing upon this subject, was written by Sir John Herschel.1 ' The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which gives rise to the phenomena of lightning, and probably also to terrestrial magnetism and the Aurora.... | |
| Banglore Suryanaraina Row - 1900 - 76 pages
...of the greatest modern astronomers thus writes upon the Sun's influence on the Earthly I phenomena. "The Sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost...all winds, and those disturbances in the electric eqilibrium of the atmosphere which'give rise to the phenomena of lightning, and probably also to terrestrial... | |
| George Woodward Warder - Creation - 1900 - 358 pages
...Herschel declares " The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion that takes place upon the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced...and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium which give rise to the phenomena of lightning, and the aurora. By their vivifying action vegetables... | |
| Theosophy - 1900 - 1124 pages
...life poured forth by the sun, the Lord and Giver of life to this system." Sir John Herschel says that the sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on th« 1 face of the earth " ; and Tyndall, going more into detail, asserts that " solar light and solar... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1906 - 822 pages
...the chemical changes in protoplasm. In a word, as Sir John Herschel put it, so far back as 1833, ' the sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every...motion which takes place on the surface of the earth." At one time it was thought that the majority of infusoria and tissuecells were not affected by light... | |
| Arthur Erich Haas - Force and energy - 1909 - 132 pages
...(abgedruckt aus der Ausgabe vom Jahre 1833): The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every niution which takes place on the surface of the earth. By its heat nre procluced all winds, and those distnrbances in the ei|uilibrium of the atmosphere which give rise... | |
| Frederick M. Tschirner - Solar system - 1924 - 170 pages
...universally accepted fact. As stated by Sir John FW Herschel in his "Outlines of Astronomy," paragraph 399: "By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances...in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which gives rise to the phenomena of lightning, and probably also to those of terrestrial magnetism and the... | |
| 1864 - 632 pages
...the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By their heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances...the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action vegetables are elaborated from inorganic matter, and... | |
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