 | Malthe Conrad Bruun - 1822 - Počet stránok 696
...Upon an artificial globe of twenty-one feet in circumference, or of 6| feet in diameter, Chimborazo could only be represented by a grain of sand less...the true differences which exist between our globe and a perfect sphere, are known, measured, and estimated. But before setting forth this result, deduced... | |
 | Conrad Malte-Brun - 1829 - Počet stránok 552
...axis. Upon an artificial globe of twenty-one feet in circumference, or 6| feet in diameter, Chimborazo could only be represented by a grain of sand less...the true differences which exist between our globe and a perfect sphere, are known, measured, and estimated. But before setting forth this result, deduced... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes - 1830 - Počet stránok 566
...surface of the sea, would only be represented on an artificial globe, of about six feet in diameter, by a grain of, sand less than one-twentieth of an inch in thickness*. The superficial inequalities of the earth, then, may be deemed minute in quantity, and their distribution... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes - 1830 - Počet stránok 562
...surface of the sea, would only be represented on an artificial globe, of about six feet in diameter, by a grain of sand less than one-twentieth of an inch in thickness*. The superficial inequalities of the earth, then, may be deemed minute in quantity, and their distribution... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835 - Počet stránok 440
...more than 21,000 feet above the sea, would be represented, on a globe of about six feet in diameter, by a grain of sand less than one-twentieth of an inch in thickness.* The superficial inequalities of the earth, then, may be deemed minute in quantity, and their distribution... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - Počet stránok 568
...more than 21,000 feet above the sea, would be represented, on a globe of about six feet in diameter, by a grain of sand less than onetwentieth of an inch in thickness.* The superficial inequalities of the earth, then, may be deemed minute in quantity, and their distribution... | |
 | System - 1842 - Počet stránok 894
...Upon an artificial globe of twenty-one feet in circumference, or of 6| feet in diameter, Dwawalaghiri could only be represented by a grain of sand less...deserve to be taken into consideration. We shall see, besides, as we proceed, that the true differences which exist between our globe and a perfect sphere,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1850 - Počet stránok 866
...more '03021,000 feet above the sea, would be represented, on a globe of about six feet in diameter, by a grain of sand less than one-twentieth of an inch in thickness.* The superficial inequalities of the earth, then, may be deemed nrinute in quantity, and their distribution... | |
 | Evan Hopkins - 1851 - Počet stránok 298
...hemisphere. When Kepler established the eccentricity of the earth's orbit little was known of refraction. K 2 by a grain of sand less than one-twentieth of an inch in thickness." Let us consider what would be the nature of the deposition in a large tract of land like Australia,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - Počet stránok 304
...its axis. Upon an artificial globe of 21 feet in circumference, or of 6$ feet in diameter, Chimborazo could only be represented by a grain of sand less...Irregularities so imperceptible do not deserve to be taken into consideration.—Maltebrun. THE THREE MOTIONS OF THE EARTH. The Earth is believed by all our great... | |
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could only be represented by a grain of sand less than one-twentieth of an inch in thickness. Irregularities so imperceptible do not deserve to be taken into consideration. We shall see, in the following Book, that the true differences which exist between... 
