 | 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 - 1815 - 656 oldal
...temperature of the air as exhibited by the thermometer. : ' I had often,' says Dr. Wells, p. 120, ' in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means...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 of the... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1815 - 174 oldal
...means. III. I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means frequently ethployed. 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 of the... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 554 oldal
...generating heat, for the supply of what they lose by radiation or any other means. III. I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means...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 of the... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 536 oldal
...generating heat, for the supply of what they lose by radiation or any other means. III. I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means...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 of the... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 536 oldal
...ge-nerating heat, for the supply of what they lose by radiation or any other means. III. I had often, in the pride of half know-ledge, smiled at the means...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 of the... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1506 oldal
...less dew will be deposited, and therefore leas heat extricated during its formation. " I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means...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 of the... | |
 | Thomas Gill (patent-agent) - 1826 - 440 oldal
...upon this important subject, thus candidly remarks upon this anticipation of science:—"I had often, in the pride of half knowledge, smiled at the means...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 of the... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1827 - 904 oldal
...doctrines of latent heat. “ I had often,” says Dr. ¿VeUs, “smiled, in the pride of half knowledge, at the means frequently employed by gardeners to protect...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 of the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 394 oldal
...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...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 of the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 oldal
...night, while the of the same temperature as the air, while the unUides of grass are covered with dew. 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 of the... | |
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