... cosmical body, for otherwise night would be. as light and as warm as day. What becomes of the enormous force thus apparently non-recurrent in the same form ? Does it return as palpable motion? Does it move or contribute to move suns and planets... Report of the Annual Meeting - Page lxivby British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1867Full view - About this book
| 1871 - 632 pages
...difficult to conceive one — there is a constant evolution of heat and light ; and yet more is given off than is received by each cosmical body, for otherwise...it move, or contribute to move, suns and planets?" Mr. Williams thinks he may venture to answer those questions, having shown that the heat thus radiated... | |
| 1871 - 400 pages
...constant evolution of heat and light ; and yet more is given off than is received by each costnical body, for otherwise night would be as light and as...it move, or contribute to move, suns .and planets?" Mr. Williams thinks he may venture to answer those questions, having shown that the heat thus radiated... | |
| James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1871 - 616 pages
...difficult to conceive one, — there is a constant evolution of heat and light ; and yet more is given off than is received by each cosmical body, for otherwise...force thus apparently non-recurrent in the same form ?" This is a grand question, a philosophical thought worthy of the author of " The Correlation of Physical... | |
| 1871 - 598 pages
...difficult to conceive one, — there is a constant evolution of heat and light ; and yet more is given off than is received by each cosmical body, for otherwise...force thus apparently non-recurrent in the same form ?" This is a grand question, a philosophical thought worthy of the author of " The Correlation of Physical... | |
| William Robert Grove - 1874 - 498 pages
...no limit—and it is difficult to conceive one—heat and light should be everywhere uniform ; and night would be as light and as warm as day. What becomes...Does it move or contribute to move suns and planets ? Can it be conceived as a force similar to that which Newton speculated on as universally repulsive... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1874 - 692 pages
...constant evolution of heat aud light ; and yet more is given off than is received by each (self-luminous) cosmical body, for otherwise night would be as light...the same form ? Does it return as palpable motion 9 Does it move or contribute to move suns and planets ? and can it be conceived as a force similar... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1875 - 740 pages
...constant evolution of heat and light; and yet more is given off than is received by each (self-luminous) cosmical body, for otherwise night would be. as light...capable of being substituted for universal attraction ? ' * A geologist, in search of some renovating power, by which the amount of heat may be made to continue... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1876 - 696 pages
...constant evolution of heat and light ; and yet more is given off than is received by each (self-luminous) cosmical body, for otherwise night would be as light...can it be conceived as a force similar to that which Xewton speculated on as -universally repulsive and capable of being substituted for universal attraction... | |
| John Hume Kedzie - 1886 - 332 pages
...his own words, first prefixing the question of Mr. Grove, to svhich the passage is an answer, thus : "What becomes of the enormous force thus apparently non-recurrent in the same form?" referring to the heat radiated into space by the sun and other celestial bodies ; to which Mr. Williams... | |
| 1871 - 632 pages
...difficult to conceive one — there is a constant evolution of heat and light ; and yet more is given off than is received by each cosmical body, for otherwise...Does it move, or contribute to move, suns and planets ?" Mr. Williams thinks he may venture to answer those questions, having shown that the heat thus radiated... | |
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