 | William Charles Wells - Dew - 1815 - 174 pages
...heavens, I perceived immediately a just reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise...fixed, perpendicularly, in the earth of a grassplat, 4 small sticks, and over their upper extremities., which were 6 inches above the grass, and formed... | |
 | William Charles Wells - Dew - 1815 - 168 pages
...heavens, I perceived immediately a just reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise...fixed, perpendicularly, in the earth of a grassplat, 4 small sticks, and over their upper extremities, which were 6 inches above the grass, and formed the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1815 - 558 pages
...sticks, in such a manner, as to make them rise six inches perpendicularly above the grass, and form the corners of a square, the sides of which were two feet long. Over the upper ends of these sticks were drawn lightly the four corners of a fine cambric handkerchief,... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 554 pages
...heavens, I perceived immediately a just reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise...fixed, perpendicularly, in the earth of a grassplat, 4 small sticks, and over their upper extremities, which were 6 inches above the grass, and formed the... | |
 | William Charles Wells - Binocular vision - 1818 - 530 pages
...heavens, I perceived immediately a just reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise...fixed, perpendicularly, in the earth of a grassplat, 4 small sticks, and over their upper extremities, which were 6 inches above the grass, and formed the... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Chemistry - 1821 - 436 pages
...heavens, I perceived immediately a just reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise...four small sticks, and over their upper extremities, whioh were six inches above the grass, and formed the corners of a square whose sides were two feet... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1825 - 1250 pages
...heavens, I perceived immediately a just reason for the practice, which I had before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise...subject, I fixed, perpendicularly, in the earth of a grass plot, four small sticks, and over their upper extremities, which were six inches above the grass,... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Chemistry - 1828 - 872 pages
...heavens, I perceived immediately a just reason for the practice which I had before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise...subject, I fixed perpendicularly, in the earth of a grass plat, four small sticks, and over their upper extremities, which were six inches above the grass,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise information on this subject, 1 fixed perpendicularly, in the earth of a grass-plat,...above the grass, and formed the corners of a square whose sides were two feet long, I drew tightly a very thin cambric handkerchief. In this disposition... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 pages
...heavens, I perceived immediately a just reason for the practice which I had before deemed useless. Being desirous, however, of acquiring some precise...subject, I fixed perpendicularly, in the earth of a grass-pint, four small sticks, and over their upper extremities, which were six inches above the grass,... | |
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... thought them liable to be injured. But, when I had learned, that bodies on the surface of the earth become, during a still and serene night, colder than the atmosphere, by radiating their heat to the heavens, I perceived immediately a just reason... 
