Cosmos: A
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共 45 段- INTRODUCTION.
- g. The solid surface of the earth has two envelopes, one li
- But although the mountains of India greatly surpass the Cord
- In order to trace to its primitive source the enjoyment deri
- The cold regions of the earth contain, deposited in sediment
- By uniting, under one point of view, both the phenomena of o
- [footnote] I[The analysis of an aerolite which fell a few y
- We would first distinguish between the physical 'history' an
- The earnest investigator delights in the simplicity of numer
- [footnote] * (Since the publication of Baron Humboldt's wor
- Three sevenths of the Moon's surface are entirely
- The discovery of Encke's comet, which had a period of only 3
- [footnote] *On 'méteoric dust', see Arago, in the 'Annuaire
- [footnote] *Chladni states that an Italian physicist, Paolo
- [footnote] *Gustav Rose, in Poggend., 'Ann.', 1825, bd. iv.,
- [footnote] *Dominicus Cassini ('Mém. de l'Acad.', t. viii.,
- The manifold translatory changes of the stars, not those pro
- As we purpose for the present to confine ourselves exclusive
- If these measurements do not always accord in the curvatures
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- Although the knowledge of the attracting power of native iro
- [footnote] *From the observations hitherto collected, it ap
- [footnote] *For an account of the results of the observatio
- In the very considerable number of earthquakes which I have
- As the mountain chains appear to be raised on fissures, the
- Cold springs can only indicate the mean atmospheric temperat
- Although vocanoes are justy termed in many languages "fire-e
- [footnote] *According to Plato's geognostic views, as devel
- It is a fact worthy of notice, that among the four great par
- To the second or sedimentary rocks belong the greater part o
- [footnote] *On the transformation of compact into granular
- The order of succession, and the relative age of the differe
- Nothing appears to corroborate
- In the silurian epoch, as well as in that in which the Cycad
- The maximum of this elevating
- The admirable geodetic operations of Coraboeuf and Delcrois
- Fogs which have a peculiar smell at some seasons of the year
- We have already seen the slowness with which the great mass
- The snow-line which, under the equator in South America, att
- [footnote] *Kämtz, in Schumacher's 'Jahrbuch fur' 1838, s.
- Among these we may reckon many of the marine Algae -- Cladon
- Geographical investigations regarding the ancient 'seat', th
- Atmosphere, the general description of, 311, 316; its compos
- Kant, Emmanuel, "on the theory and structure of the heavens,
- Sun, magnitude of its volume compared with that of the fixed