Über dieses Buch
26CT 1961
XXXIV. Atmospherical Department
SECT. i. Composition of the Atmosphere
ii. Atmospheric Air
iii. Atmospheric Water
iv. Atmospheric Carbonic Acid
v. Atmospheric unknown Bodies
vi. Variation of the Atmosphere
XXXV. Zones and Climates -
XXXVI Nature, Properties, and Variations of Heat
SECT. i. Sources and Effects of Heat
ii. Variation of Local Heat
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iii. Cold of the North Polar Regions, as ascertained by
Lord Mulgrave
100
iii. Variation of Heat in Countries best known, or most
exposed to it
XXXVII. Degrees and Effects of severe Cold in High
Latitudes, &c.
SECT. i. Cold of the South Polar Regions
ii. Ice-Islands, and Sufferings of Lieutenant Riou, in
the Guardian Frigate
iv. The same, as ascertained by Capt. Cook, with his
Discovery of a Passage from the Pacific Ocean,
Northward
v. State of the Globe within the Arctic Circle
vi. Effects of Cold at Hudson's Bay, in 1741-2
vii. Extraordinary degree of Cold at Glasgow, in Jan.
1780
XXXVIII. Evaporation
XXXIX. Formation and Nature of Dew, Mist, Fogs,
Clouds, Rain, Snow, and Hail
SECT. I. General Remarks
ii. Annual Fall of Rain
iii. Fall of Butter-like Dew in Ireland
iv. Dense Fog on the Island of Sumatra
v. Violent Showers of Rain in different places
vi. Storm of Salt Rain
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Chap.
V.
Violent Showers of Rain in different places
vii. Volcanic Showers, or Rain
1. General Remarks
2. Showers of Ashes in the Archipelago
3. Shower of Dust that fell on a Ship near Iceland
4. New kind of Rain
xi. Avalanches, or falling Masses of detached and in-
cumbent Snow-heaps, from the Summits of lofty
Mountains
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xii. General Nature of Hail
181
xiii. Violent Hail-Storms, accompanied with Stones of
unusual size
182
XL. On Winds, or Atmospherical Currents
185
SECT. i. General Remarks on the Nature and Origin of Winds, Trade- Winds, Monsoons, Partial Winds, and Hur- ricanes
ii. Methodical Arrangement, Intensity, and Velocity
of Winds
vi. Occasional Winds; as Hurricanes, Tempests, Tor-
6. Dreadful Whirlwind at Cambridge, New England 249
7. Whirlwind at Corne Abbas, Dorsetshire
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SECT. i. General Remarks
ii. Genuine Presters, or Water-Spouts
1. Observed in the Mediterranean
2. In the Moors of Lancashire
3. Near the Lipari Islands
iii. Mimic Water-Spouts
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SECT. i. Its relation to common Matter
ii. Communication and Velocity of Electricity
iii. Atmospherical Electricity
XLIII. Electricity of Thunder and Lightning
SECT. i. General History of this Interesting Discovery
ii. Invention and Curious Properties of the Electrical
Kite
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275
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305
iii. Means of preventing Mischief from Lightning
iv. Thunder-Storms remarkable for their Violence or
Effects
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312
v. Death of Professor Richman by Lightning
353
XLIV. On Magnetism
SECT. I. General Remarks on the Theory of Magnetism
ii. On the Cause of the Change in the Magnetic Needle 377
iii. Magnetic Experiments
SECT. i. General History and Remarks
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XLV. Aurora Borealis and Australis
393
ii. Surprising Lights in the Air, March 6, 1716
iii. Lumen Boreale, or Streaming
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414
iv. Remarkable Red Lights seen in various places in
the Air, Dec. 16, 1737
ii. Various Extraordinary Meteors, or Lights, in the
Sky
427
iii. Blazing Meteor seen all over England, March 19,
1719
432
iv. Meteor of a Flaming Sword seen in Yorkshire, and
elsewhere
441
v. Luminous Meteor at Peckham
442
vi. Various Fiery Meteors, with Observations
SECT. vii. Various Fiery Meteors, with Balls that have de-
scended to the Earth
viii. Observations on Fire-Balls
ix. Aërolites, or Meteoric Stones
x. Falling or Shooting Stars
1. General History and Observations
2. Lunar, or Selenitic Origin of Meteoric Stones
XLVII. On Luminous and Burning Exhalations under
the Names of Ignes Fatui; Will-o'-the-
Wisps; Jack-o'- Lanthorns;
Lights; and St. Helmo's Fires
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Mariner's
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ii. Of the Ignis Fatuus, as observed in England
iii. Luminous and Inflammable Exhalations on the
Snows of the Appennines
iv. Fiery Exhalations or Damp, that set on Fire various
Hay Ricks in Pembrokeshire
XLVIII. On Atmospheric Deceptions, Fata Morgana,
Mirages, Glamer or Looming, Halos, Mul-
tiplied Rainbows; Parhelions and Parasele-
nites, or Mock-Suns, and Mock-Moons;
Glories; Refraction of Iceland Crystal
SECT. i. Explanation of the principle of Atmospheric Decep- tions
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504
ii. Fata Morgana; or Optical Appearances of Figures
in the Sea and Air, in the Faro of Messina
iii. Singular Instance of Atmospherical Refraction, by
which the Coast of Picardy was brought apparently
close to that of Hastings
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514
iv. On Refractions and Double Refractions in the Atmo-
sphere
516
v. Farhelia, or Mock-Suns, seen at Dantzic
521
vi. Pyramidal Appearance in the Heavens, observed in
Essex
522
vii. Parhelia at Sudbury, Suffolk
523
viii. Two Mock-Suns and an Arc of a Rainbow in-
verted
524
ix. Beautiful Irridescent Arches in a Mist
526
x. Peculiar Solar and Lunar Irises in South America
xi, Lunar Rainbow in Derbyshire
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529
xii. Description of a Glory on Mount Realt, near the
Vale of Clwyd
530
XLIX. Of Sounds and Echoes
533
SECT. i. General Observations on the Nature of Sound,
Whispering Domes, and Echoes
ii. Extraordinary Whispering Places and Echoes
iii. Singular Sympathetic Action of Two Pendulum
Clocks on each other
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