Elements of Meteorology, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: John Frederic Daniell
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332682488
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Excerpt from Elements of Meteorology, Vol. 2 of 2 However this may be, my mind was thus directed to the deposition of moisture which takes place upon certain bodies when brought into an atmosphere which is warmer than themselves; and following up the suggestion of Pliny, I readily conceived that the fact was connected with meteorological phenomena; and that experiments, founded upon it, might be devised to elucidate the relation of air to vapour. I shortly after applied myself seriously to the inquiry, and was soon satisfied of the accuracy of the conjecture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: John H. Tice
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ISBN: 9781332236770
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Excerpt from Elements of Meteorology, Vol. 2: Part II; Meteorological Cycles The opening sentence sufficiently indicates without further remark that this volume by itself is incomplete, and that it must be preceded by another, of which it is a mere episode, and in which general and more comprehensive principles are discussed. It may, however, be necessary to give an explanation of the anomaly of publishing the Second Part first. In a sojourn in the Rocky Mountains, during the Summer of 1874, having leisure, I completed a work on Meteorology, based upon original researches, in which I have been engaged for over twelve years, the results of which I had been employed for the last five years in systematizing and elaborating, as time and opportunity offered. When completed I offered it to the Eastern publishers; but, with one exception, they all refused to look at it; and the exceptional case was a compromise, to get rid of importunity, by consenting to look at one Chapter. The following was the result: "We have examined the manuscript, and we think you have treated the subject with signal ability, and that the work is likely to prove interesting, and which will attract the general attention of scholars and scientific men; but for purely business reasons we have decided not to undertake its publication." These "business reasons," of course, were understood to be the same as those expressed by other publishers applied to: "Nobody reads Science, but everybody reads novels; if you have any thing of the latter we will give it favorable consideration." This we would take as a compliment to our system of public education if it stopped with the first proposition, "Nobody reads Science." But if the other proposition be just and true, that the mental cravings of the present generation, both young and old, are satisfied with the vapid and trashy romances and novels of the day, then it is the severest criticism of, and commentary upon, our system of public education, we have yet seen. If such be the result, then the less we have of it the better. After having devoted and spent the prime of my life in building up that system, I am loath to believe it; and take it to be that the public read novels because authors and the press do not furnish them any thing better. But what shall we think of Science that nobody reads? "Ah! there's the rub." Science should be Wisdom; it should not only be Truth, but demonstrated Truth. Is this the case with what has been dignified as Science? We are afraid not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: John Frederic Daniell
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282985318
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Excerpt from Elements of Meteorology, Vol. 1 of 2 The sudden decease of the lamented Author of the present Work, whilst it was passing through the press, has rendered it necessary that the reader should be briefly informed of the nature and extent of the task that has devolved upon the Editors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Napier Shaw
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528345576
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Excerpt from Manual of Meteorology, Vol. 2: Comparative Meteorology The incorporation of these charts into the body Of what is intended to serve as a text-book would not have been possible without the initiative enterprise of Mr Peace and the skilful management of the material by his successor, Mr Lewis, and the staff of the University Press. For further help of various kinds in relation to the illustrations I make the following grateful acknowledgment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Henry Newton Dickson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780364341865
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Excerpt from Meteorology the Elements of Weather and Climate Smithsonian Institution. My best thanks are due to Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, Librarian to the Royal Geographical Society, and to Mr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: John Brocklesby
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780666121431
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Excerpt from Elements of Meteorology: With Questions for Examination, Designed for Schools and Academies Meteorology is a subject of interest to all. We live in the very midst of its phenomena, and are constantly subjected to their influence. Many of the singular pro cesses of nature which this science unfolds, are intimate ly connected with our being and happiness, While others, on account of their beauty and sublimity, fill the mind with admiration and awe. The subject being one of universal interest, we might naturally suppose it to be universally understood; but such is not the case. Meteorology, as a science, is of recent origin; for it is only within the space of a very few years that it has risen, through the efforts of many gifted minds, to the rank it deserves to hold amid the various departments of knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Rex Stout
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434403696
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Volume 2 Number 2 of The Mystery Fancier, March 1978, contains: "The Matt Helm Series," by Banks and Townsend, "Professor Without a Pseudonym," by Larry L. French, "Bouchercon VIII, Murder at the Waldorf," by Mary Ann Grochowski, "Miscellaneous Mystery Mish-mash, Part II, The California Switch," by Marvin Lachman, "The (Very Temporary) Return of Skull-Face," by Robert E. Briney, and "The Nero Wolfe Saga, Part VI," by Guy M. Townsend.

Author: Sir Napier Shaw
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365196570
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Excerpt from Manual of Meteorology, Vol. 3 The reconsideration Opened out upon some suggestions for the use of entropy as a meteorological element in various ways that invited exploration. In particular it has been found possible to regard an isentropic surface as a practical alternative for sea-level or some other horizontal surface on which to place the facts about weather. Only the beginnings of the exploration have been made and it is hoped to enlist the reader's assistance in its prosecution. To break off that exploration in order to include the recital of the achievements of Newtonian dynamics in the domain of meteorology would be a change of key-note more suitable for another volume, to include what has already been printed in Part Iv, than another chapter which would leave Part IV as a detached appendix. The new volume is the more natural since the original Part IV is already out of print. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Napier Shaw
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365363927
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Excerpt from Manual of Meteorology, Vol. 4: Meteorological Calculus; Pressure and Wind (a Revised Edition of Part IV, 1919) But anyone who takes an intelligent interest in the structure of the atmosphere, whether he regards it in detail or thinks only of its more general features, must have a working knowledge of the physical properties of air, and that is no slight matter. Maxwell's wonder ful Theory of Heat with all its digressive chapters might have been written for the purpose, for all that it contains is extraordinarily appropriate. Only one additional chapter, on the difficult subject of the thermodynamical properties of moist air, is required. The physical properties of air form the subject of Part II (vol. III). Part III (vol. IV) contains the formal setting out of the dynamical and thermal principles upon which theoretical meteorology depends, and which find their application in Part IV. It is necessarily technical but again its main outlines are sketched by the hand of a perfect master of the art in Maxwell's Matter and Motion. The whole is preceded by a historical introduction and a state ment of the position of the general meteorological problem at the present day (vol. I); because the history of the study of weather forms a striking example of the interaction of the progress of science and the creation of the instruments which it uses. Part IV is issued in advance because what is contained therein has not hitherto been presented in a collected form. It represents the progress made chiefly by those who have been associated in the work of the Meteorological Office in the past twenty years. We owe our success to the fortunate circumstances of our meteorological terrain. For the other parts of the subject all meteorologists have the same sources of reference open to them if they care to use them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Napier Shaw
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334307881
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Excerpt from Manual of Meteorology, Vol. 1: Meteorology in History The feeling developed into conviction during the war when it became my duty to supply, or alternatively to train, officers for various meteorological services. I was working in an environment which contained within its own experience or on its shelves almost all that there is to know about the weather; yet I had to send responsible officers into the services with a formula by which they could carry on, in place of the knowledge that would enable them to become a part. In that respect the war was like a kinema film that is run too fast one missed what one is accustomed to see and saw things that pass unnoticed in ordinary life. I realised that an insight into what the study of weather means was at that time and is still a privilege rather wastefully confined to a small minority of a special class, that my work for the science which, for twenty-five years, it was my duty to foster could not be regarded as finished without a definite attempt to rescue from oblivion the vast mass of information about weather that is hidden behind the backs of the books of a meteorological library. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.