 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1854 - 492 pages
...variations, or are competent to do so, is a question that can only be decided after very careful enquiry. Observations are now made on the surface of the earth...it appears to be remarkably supported by the facts. All these coincidences are particularly examined into and stated in the Philosophical transactions... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1854 - 486 pages
...in north or south latitudes should be larger in summer and smaller in winter, and so they arc : — a night or cold action should grow up in the winter...it appears to be remarkably supported by the facts. All these coincidences are particularly examined into and stated in the Philosophical transactions... | |
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Hobarton, and at many others near to and far from the equator, and agrees in direction with the results observed far beyond what the author anticipated. Thus the paths described by the upper ends of free needles in the north and south hemispheres should... 
