Comptes rendus of observation and reasoning
Title:
Comptes rendus of observation and reasoning
Author:
Buchanan, J. Y. (John Young), 1844-1925.
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Publication Information:
Cambridge [Eng.] : University press, 1917.
Physical Description:
xl, 452 pages : including illustrations, tables, diagrams xiv plates (including frontispiece: portrait) ; 22 cm
General Note:
Reprinted from various sources.
Language:
English
Contents:
Recent Antartic exploration.--Chemical and physical notes.--On ice and brines.--On steam and brines.--The size of the ice-grain in glaciers.--Ice and its natural history.--Beobachtungen uber die einwirkung der strahlung auf das gletschereis.--In and around the Morteratsch glacier: a study in the natural history of ice.--On the use of the globe in the study of crystallography.--On a solar calorimeter used in Egypt at the total solar eclipse in 1882.--Solar radiation.--The total solar eclipse of August 30, 1905.--Eclipse predictions.--The solar eclipe of April 17, 1912.--The publication of scientific papers.-The Royal society.--Nomenclature and notation in calorimetry.--Thermometric scales for meteorological use.--The metrical system.--The power of Great Britain.--And the House of commons?--Lord Milner and imperial scholarships. --History in handy volumes.
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Book