 | William Charles Wells - 1815 - 174 pagine
...lose by radiation or any other means. III. I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect...from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, * Meteorolog. c. vi. » by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned,... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1815 - 168 pagine
...lose by radiation or any other means. III. I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect...from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, 1 ' Meteorolog. c. V5. by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned,... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pagine
...doctrines of latent heat. " 1 had often," says Dr. Wells, " smiled, in the pride of half knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect...alone I thought them liable to be injured. But when 1 had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 436 pagine
...doctrines of latent heat. « I had often," says Dr. Wells, " smiled, in the pride of half knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners, to protect...the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone 1 thought them liable to be injured. But when I had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth... | |
 | Thomas Gill (patent-agent) - 1826 - 440 pagine
...remarks upon this anticipation of science:—"I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect...had learned that bodies on the surface of the earth became, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1827 - 904 pagine
...latent heat. “ I had often,” says Dr. ¿VeUs, “smiled, in the pride of half knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect...on the surface of the earth become, during a still arid serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the heavens, I perceived... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1831 - 980 pagine
...doctrines of latent heat. " I had often," says Dr Wells, " smiled, in the pride of half knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect...flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the température of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought them liable to be injured. But when I had... | |
 | 1833 - 796 pagine
...earth. " I had often smiled in the pride of half knowledge at the means employed by gardeners to protect plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such flimsy covering could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone I thought... | |
 | 1833 - 784 pagine
...protect plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any such flimsy covering could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which alone 1 thought them liable to be injured. But when I had learned that bodies on the surface of the earth... | |
 | john murray - 1845 - 722 pagine
...pride of half-knowledge, Broiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect tender plantg from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat, or any *uch flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature of the atmosphere, by which... | |
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I had often, in the pride of half-knowledge, smiled at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect tender plants from cold, as it appeared to me impossible that a thin mat or any such flimsy substance, could prevent them from attaining the temperature... 
