... of those great deposits of dynamical efficiency which are laid up for human use in our coal strata. By them the waters of the sea are made to circulate in vapour through the air, and irrigate the land, producing springs and rivers. By them are produced... The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist - Seite 1941857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 Seiten
...the air, 'and irrigate the land, producing springs and rivers. By them are produced all disturbances of the chemical equilibrium of the elements of nature,...waters of the ocean, are entirely due to the abrasion of the wind and rain, and the alternate action of the seasons ; and when we consider the immense transfer... | |
| sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 Seiten
...the air, and irrigate the land, producing springs and rivers. By them are produced all disturbances of the chemical equilibrium of the elements of nature,...waters of the ocean, are entirely due to the abrasion of the wind and rain, and the alternate action of the seasons ; and when we consider the immense transfer... | |
| 1834 - 550 Seiten
...the air, and irrigate the land, producing springs and rivers. By them are produced all disturbances of the chemical equilibrium of the elements of nature,...diffusion among the waters of the ocean, are entirely new to the abrasion of the wind and rain, and the alternate action of the seasons ; and when we consider... | |
| John Frederick William Herschel - 1835 - 414 Seiten
...irrigate the land, producing springs and rivers. By them are produced all disturbances of the chymical equilibrium of the •elements of nature, which, by...and their diffusion among the waters of the ocean, are-entirely due to the abrasion of the wind and rain, and the alternate action of the seasons ; and... | |
| Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 Seiten
...the air, and irrigate the land, producing springs and rivers. By them are produced all disturbances of the chemical equilibrium of the elements of nature,...and originate a transfer of materials. Even the slow degradations of the solid con stituents of the surface in which its chief geological changes consist,... | |
| William Gordon - 1847 - 144 Seiten
...springs and rivers. 76 STRUCTURE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. 399. By them are produced all the disturbances of the chemical equilibrium of the elements of nature,...new products, and originate a transfer of materials. 400. Even the slow degradation of the solid constituents of the surface in which its chief geological... | |
| John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 672 Seiten
...the air, and irrigate the land, producing springs and rivers. By them are produced all disturbances of the chemical equilibrium of the elements of nature,...surface, in which its chief geological changes consist, is almost entirely due on the one hand to the abrasion of wind and rain, and the alternation of heat... | |
| Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1850 - 580 Seiten
...the air, and irrigate the land, producing springs and rivers. By them are produced all disturbances of the chemical equilibrium of the elements of nature...waters of the ocean, are entirely due to the abrasion of the wind and rain, and the alternate action of the seasons ; and when we consider the immense transfer... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - 1850 - 662 Seiten
...the air, and irrigate the land, producing springs and rivers. By them are produced all disturbances of the chemical equilibrium of the elements of nature,...new products, and originate a transfer of materials " (©. 45.) Philos. Transact, for 1795 Vol. LXXXV. p. 318; 3olm ufri'dn'1, Outlines of Astr. p. 238;... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - 1850 - 662 Seiten
...the air, and irrigate the land, producing springs and rivers. By them are produced all disturbances of the chemical equilibrium of the elements of nature,...series of compositions and decompositions, give rise lo new products, and originate a transfer of materials » (@. 45.) Philos. Transact, for 1795 Vol.... | |
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