Meteorology practical and applied / [Sir John William Moore].

  • Moore, John W. (John William), 1845-1937.
Date:
1894
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    CONTENTS PART I.—INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER I METEOROLOGY Meaning and History of the Term—Relations of Meteorology to Medicine— Buys Ballot’s Law—Theory of the Winds—Cyclonic and Anticyclonic Systems—Direction and Force, or Velocity, of the Wind—Barometri- cal Gradients—Seasonal Variations of Temperature and Air Move- ments—The Claim of Meteorology to be regarded as a Science Pages 1-9 CHAPTER II THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE ATMOSPHERE The Atmosphere: what it is, and its Effects—The Inclination of the Earth on its Axis—The Revolution of the Eartli round the Sun— Atmospheric Air is Transparent, but has both Substance and Colour —Weight of the Atmosphere—Its Gaseous Condition—It is capable of Compression and of Expansion—Professor Dewar's Experiments on the Liquefaction of Gases by Cold—Liquid Air—Liquid Oxygen— frozen Air—Boyle’s and Mariotte’s Law—The Law of Charles, or Regnault’s Law—Bearing of these Laws of Compression and Expan- sion of Gases on Practical Meteorology—Elasticity of the Air—Rare- faction of the Atmosphere at great Altitudes—Atmospheric Pressure is exerted equally in all Directions—Otto von Guericke’s Experiment with the Magdeburg Hemispheres—Transparency of the Atmosphere —Its Diathermancy and Athermauey . . . Pages 10-18