 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1838 - 350 pages
...of any part of the Earth's surface depends mainly, if not entirely, upon its exposure to the Sun's rays. Whenever the Sun is above the horizon of any place, that place is receiving heat; when the Sun is below the horizon it is parting with it, by a process which is called radiation. The quantities... | |
 | Rosina Maria Zornlin - Physical geography - 1840 - 516 pages
...being great in proportion to the vertical direction in which they strike the earth. Whenever the »un is above the horizon of any place, that place is receiving...parting with it, by the process called radiation. Whenever, therefore, the sun remains more than twelve hours above the horizon of any place, and consequently... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1843 - 344 pages
...the Earth's surface depends mainly, if not entirely, upon its exposure to the Sun's rays. Whenevei the Sun is above the horizon of any place, that place is receiving heat; when the Sun is below the horizon it is parting with it, by a process which is called radiation. The quantities... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...Now, the temperature of any part of the earth's surface depends mainly on its exposure to the sun's rays. Whenever the sun is above the horizon of any...whole quantities received and parted with in the year (secondary causes apart) must balance each other at every station, or the equilibrium of temperature... | |
 | Frederick Overman - Building - 1851 - 452 pages
...face of the earth, it would not be sufficient to supply the loss of twenty-four hours of the sun's rays. Whenever the sun is above the horizon of any place, that place is receiving heat ; when below, it parts with it by the process of radiation. Another source of heat is combustion ; a chemical process... | |
 | Rosina Maria Zornlin - Geography - 1851 - 148 pages
...globe, the temperature of any part, being almost wholly dependent on its exposure to his rays. Whilst the sun is above the horizon of any place, that place is receiving heat; and "when the sun is below the horizon, it is parting with heat by the process called radiation, that... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1856 - 358 pages
...Sun's rays. INCLINATION OF THE EARTH'S AXIS TO THE PLASB OP THB ECLIPTIC. THE ECLIPTIC X5fc£ 615. Whenever the Sun is above the horizon of any place, that place is receiving heat ; when the Sun is below the horizon it is parting with it, by a process which is called radiation. The quantities... | |
 | Reading book - 1856 - 352 pages
...countries where snow is unknown, to the polar regions where there is ice all the year round. But so long as the sun is above the horizon of any place, that place is receiving heat ; when the sun is below the horizon, it is losing heat. Therefore, since in countries distant from the equator... | |
 | Rosina Maria Zornlin - Physical geography - 1856 - 202 pages
...globe, the temperature of any part being almost wholly dependent on its exposure to his rays. , Whilst the sun is above the horizon of any place, that place is receiving heat ; and when the sun is below the horizon, it is parting with heat by the process called radiation, that... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1856 - 362 pages
...the Sun's rays. IXCLIXATIOX or TIHt RARTH'S AXIS TO THB FLASK or THE KLIFTIC. THE ECLIPTIC ^fSL 615. Whenever the Sun is above the 'horizon of any place, that place is rewiving heat ; when the Sun is below the horizon it is parting with it, hy a process which is called... | |
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Whenever the sun is above the horizon of any place, that place is receiving heat; when below, parting with it, by the process called radiation ; and the whole quantities received and parted with in the year... 
