 | Henry Woodward - 1869 - 646 páginas
...the substance best adapted for preventing the dissipation of the earth's heat into space if we wish to raise the general temperature of the earth. Water,...carry the heat which it receives from the sun to every corner of the globe."1 VI. — NOTES ON CONTINENTAL GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. By THOMAS DAVIDSON, FRS,... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1869 - 664 páginas
...the substance best adapted for preventing the dissipation of the earth's heat into space if we wish to raise the general temperature of the earth. Water,...carry the heat which it receives from the sun to every corner of the globe."1 VL — NOTES ON CONTINENTAL GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. By THOMAS DAVIDSON, FES,... | |
 | 1870 - 1136 páginas
...the ground at the equator becomes intensely heated by the sun's rays. This causes it to radiate off its heat more rapidly into space than a surface of...very great. If the quantity of heat transferred from the equatorial regions by the Gulf-stream alone is nearly equal to all the heat received from the sun... | |
 | E.R. KNORR - 1871 - 408 páginas
...Mote. 180. carried up by the ascending current at the Equator is not employed in warming (Con'd.) ^Q earth, but is thrown off into the cold stellar space...adapted, by means of currents, to carry the heat which is received from the sun to every region of the globe. These results show (although they have reference... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1872 - 724 páginas
...lost by radiation, passing off into the stellar spaces. " It is in the Equatorial regions," he says, " that the earth loses as well as gains the greater...receives from the sun to every region of the globe "*. Now in this assumption two facts are entirely ignored : — -first, the very small depth to which... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1872 - 728 páginas
...lost by radiation, passing off into the stellar spaces. " It is in the Equatorial regions," he says, " that the earth loses as well as gains the greater...receives from the sun to every region of the globe "*. Now in this assumption two facts are entirely ignored : — -first, the very small depth to which... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1878 - 642 páginas
...substances in nature water seems to possess this quality in the highest degree ; and being a fluid it is adapted by means of currents to carry the heat which it receives to every region of the globe. It has been urged as an objection to any ocean-current theory that while... | |
 | James Croll - 1885 - 352 páginas
...substances in nature, water seems to possess this quality in the highest degree; and, being a fluid, it is adapted by means of currents to carry the heat which it receives to every region of the globe. It has been urged as an objection to any oceancurrent theory that, while... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1872 - 750 páginas
...greatest extent; and, besides, " it is a fluid, and therefore adapted by means of currents to cany the heat " which it receives from the sun to every region of the globe "*. Now ia this assumption two facts are entirely ignored:—-first, the very small depth to which... | |
 | 1867 - 1174 páginas
...the substance best adapted for preventing the dissipation of the earth's heat into space, if we wish to raise the general temperature of the earth. Water,...carry the heat which it receives from the sun to every corner of the globe. In assuming those three periods of great excentricity between 1,000,000 and 700,000... | |
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... that, of all places, here ought to be placed the substance best adapted for preventing the dissipation of the earth's heat into space, in order to raise the general temperature of the earth. Water, of all substances in nature, seems to possess this... 