 | 1836 - 702 Seiten
...so extraordinary as would indicate the most important results, from keeping up a continual disparity between the positive electricity of the atmosphere and the negative electricity of the soil. If his representations were correct, and, from his known probity, I have every reason to confide... | |
 | 1854 - 480 Seiten
...movement of rotation. 3. The aurora is consequently due to electric discharges taking place in the upper regions between the positive electricity of the atmosphere and the negative electricity of the earth — the electricities being separated by the direct or indirect action of the sun, principally in the... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1866 - 508 Seiten
...variations and that of the spots of the sun ; the other would seem due to the currents produced by the positive electricity of the atmosphere and the negative electricity of the earth, which tend constantly to neutralize one another in the polar regions, while the cause, which operates... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1866 - 540 Seiten
...magnetic variations and that of the spots of the sun; the other would seem due to the currents produced by the positive electricity of the atmosphere and the negative electricity of the earth, which tend constantly to neutralize one another in tbe polar regions, while the cause, which operates... | |
 | Mary Somerville, Henry Walter Bates - 1870 - 632 Seiten
...doubt always exist permanently and imperceptibly, chiefly in the northern regions, for the discharge between the positive electricity of the atmosphere and the negative electricity of the earth must constantly take place near the polc, with an intensity varying with the season and atmosphere.... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot, Edmund Atkinson - 1872 - 552 Seiten
...According to-M. de la Rive the auroras boreales are due to electric discharges which take place in polar regions between the positive electricity of the atmosphere and the negative electricity of the terrestrial globe ; electricities which themselves are separated by the action of the sun, principally... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1872 - 588 Seiten
...apparatus. According to M. de la Eive the aurora boreales are due to electric discharges which take place in polar regions between the positive electricity of the atmosphere and the negative electricity of the terrestrial globe; electricities which themselves are separated by the action of the sun, principally... | |
 | 1872 - 342 Seiten
...beautiful phenomena, it should be borne in mind that the aurora is probably due to electrical discharges, between the positive electricity of the atmosphere and the negative electricity of the terrestrial globe. The electricities themselves are separated by the action of the sun on equatorial... | |
 | Thomas Rupert Jones - 1875 - 908 Seiten
...to the luminous electric streamers a certain direction which they are capable of taking as they are propagated in a gaseous conductor. The electric discharges...direction, and in some cases to give it motion. This is'what I have always maintained, contrary to those who believe they see in terrestrial magnetism,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1875 - 428 Seiten
...curvature and a position which cannot always be the same. In short, the electric discharges which take place in the polar regions between the positive electricity...the atmosphere and the negative electricity of the terrestrial globe are the essential and only canses of the formation of polar light — light, whose... | |
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The electric discharges which lake place in the Polar regions between the positive electricity of the atmosphere and the negative electricity of the earth, are the essential and unique cause of the formation of the polar light... 
