Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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Page vii
... heat and light , its superb vegetable forms , its brilliant tints of flower and bird and insect . Each strange and beautiful object has been described in detail ; and both the scenery and the natural phenomena of the tropics have been ...
... heat and light , its superb vegetable forms , its brilliant tints of flower and bird and insect . Each strange and beautiful object has been described in detail ; and both the scenery and the natural phenomena of the tropics have been ...
Page xi
... Heat of the Soil - Influence of the Aqueous Vapour of the Atmosphere - Influence of Winds on the Temperature of the Equator -Heat due to the Condensation of Atmospheric Vapour - General Features of the Equatorial Climate - Uniformity of ...
... Heat of the Soil - Influence of the Aqueous Vapour of the Atmosphere - Influence of Winds on the Temperature of the Equator -Heat due to the Condensation of Atmospheric Vapour - General Features of the Equatorial Climate - Uniformity of ...
Page xii
... Heat and Light as producing Colour - Changes of Colour in Animals produced by Coloured Light- Classification of Organic Colours - Protective Colours - Warning Colours -Sexual Colours -- Typical Colours - The Nature of Colour - How ...
... Heat and Light as producing Colour - Changes of Colour in Animals produced by Coloured Light- Classification of Organic Colours - Protective Colours - Warning Colours -Sexual Colours -- Typical Colours - The Nature of Colour - How ...
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... Heat of the Soil - Influence of the Aqueous Vapour of the Atmo- sphere - Influence of Winds on the Temperature of the Equator - Heat due to the Condensation of Atmospheric Vapour - General features of the Equatorial Climate - Uniformity ...
... Heat of the Soil - Influence of the Aqueous Vapour of the Atmo- sphere - Influence of Winds on the Temperature of the Equator - Heat due to the Condensation of Atmospheric Vapour - General features of the Equatorial Climate - Uniformity ...
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... heat . This incli- nation of the axis on which the earth rotates is usually defined by the inclination of the equator to the plane of the orbit , termed the obliquity of the ecliptic . The amount of this obliquity is 23 degrees , and ...
... heat . This incli- nation of the axis on which the earth rotates is usually defined by the inclination of the equator to the plane of the orbit , termed the obliquity of the ecliptic . The amount of this obliquity is 23 degrees , and ...
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