 | Malthe Conrad Bruun - 1822 - 696 ページ
...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 - 552 ページ
...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 - 566 ページ
...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 - 562 ページ
...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 - 440 ページ
...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 - 568 ページ
...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 - 894 ページ
...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 - 866 ページ
...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 - 298 ページ
...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 - 304 ページ
...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... | |
| |
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... 
