 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 500 pàgines
...air sensibly, and we have only to withdraw into perfect shade to feel the chill of the atmosphere. I never, on any occasion, suffered so much from solar...Corridor ' to the Grand Plateau of Mont Blanc, on August 13, 1857 ; though hip deep in snow at the time, the sun blazed against me with unendurable power. Immersion... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pàgines
...air sensibly, and we have only to withdraw into perfect shade to feel the chill of the atmosphere. I never, on any occasion, suffered so much from solar...Corridor ' to the Grand Plateau of Mont Blanc, on August 13, 1857; though hip deep in snow at the time, the sun blazed against me with unendurable power. Immersion... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1864 - 484 pàgines
...shade to feel the chill of the atmosphere. I never, on any occasion, suffered so much from solar iieat as in descending from the * Corridor ' to the Grand Plateau of Mont Blanc, on August 13, 1857 ; though hip deep in snow at the time, the sun blazed against me with unendurable power. Immersion... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1866 - 492 pàgines
...air sensibly, and we have only to withdraw into perfect shade to feel the chill of the atmosphere. I never, on any occasion, suffered so much from solar...Corridor ' to the Grand Plateau of Mont Blanc, on August 13, 1857 ; though hip deep in snow at the time, the sun blazed against me with unendurable power. Immersion... | |
 | 1866 - 802 pàgines
...will, therefore, burn the skin in the coldest possible air. ' I never, on any occasion,' he says, ' suffered so much from solar heat, as in descending...Plateau of Mont Blanc, on August 13th, 1857; though we were at the time hip deep in snow, the sun blazed against my companion and myself with unendurable... | |
 | 1866 - 632 pàgines
...perfect shade to feel the chill of the atmosphere. I never, on any occasion, suffered so much from solur heat as in descending from the Corridor to the Grand Plateau of Mont Blanc, on August 13, 1857. Though we were at the time hip deep in snow, the sun blazed against my companion and myself... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 560 pàgines
...air sensibly, and we have only to withdraw into perfect shade, to feel the chill of the !itinosphere. I never, on any occasion, suffered so much from solar heat, as in descending from the ' Corridor ' to tbe Grand Plateau of Mont Blanc, on August 13, 1857 ; though my companion and myself were at the time... | |
 | Amédée Guillemin - 1870 - 332 pàgines
...heat remains cold. ' Never,' says Professor Tyndall, ' did I suffer so much from solar heat as when descending from the corridor to the grand plateau of Mont Blanc, on the 13th August, 1857 ; whilst I sunk up to the waist in the snow, the Sun darted its rays upon me... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1873 - 582 pàgines
...air sensibly, and we have only to withdraw into perfect shade to feel the chill of the atmosphere. I never, on any occasion, suffered so much from solar...Corridor " to the Grand Plateau of Mont Blanc, on August 13, 1857; though my companion and myself were at the time hip-deep in snow, the sun blazed against... | |
 | 1877 - 238 pàgines
...writing of what he calls solar radiation, says : " Never did I suffer so much from solar heat, as when descending from the corridor to the grand plateau of Mont Blanc on the 13th of August, 1857. Whilst I sank up to the waist in the snow, the sun darted its rays upon me... | |
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The air on high mountains may be intensely cold, while a burning sun is overhead ; the solar rays which, striking on the human skin, are almost intolerable, are incompetent to heat the air sensibly, and we have only to withdraw into perfect shade to feel... 
