The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
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ISBN13: 9780217280921
Paperback|9780217280921
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: at 42; and in a room without a fire, at 60. Viewed in regard to protection from the influence of radiation, there was reason, it niu.st Le admitted, in the old style of laying out gardens, and especially in terraces; the trimly cut hedge, the formally cut yew tree, the intersecting alleys, all conduced not only to break the force of the blast, but also to keep the temperature of the air, and especially of the ground, and of the plants themselves, above the freezing-point in the critical time of early vegetation; and whilst thus protecting, obstructing as little as possible sunshine. 2. A curious and rather rare phenomenon, that of ground-ice, or a formation of ice at the bottom of streams, contrary to the ordinary law of the freezing of water at the surface, has been happily explained as an effect of radiation, it never having been known to occur, excepting under circumstances specially favourable to the radiation of heat. As these generally are of common occurrence in the lake district, particularly as regards perfect clearness of the streams in fine weather rivalling the clearness of the atmosphere, I expected to learn that this appearance of ice is well known to the natives; but to my repeated inquiries, I always received an answer in the negative; no one, even those most familiar with the country, had, that they were aware, ever witnessed, or even heard of it. And, till this spring, my experience was similar; I had looked for it in vain. It was on the morning of the 13th of March that I first saw it, after a night, as shewn by the preceding observations, of great cold, the radiating thermometer at 3 A. M. having been so low as 14. At 11 o'clock in the forenoon, when it was still as low as 25 in the shade, though as high as 52 in the sunshine on the grass, I examined the ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217280921 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217280927 |
| Weight | 1.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.82 In |
| List Price | $23.93 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 366 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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