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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 28 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 10 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 3 1 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
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ion, and on the effect of different angles of incidence of the sun's rays in heating the ground. Beck's Thermograph. Thermometers. A. Santorio. B. Boyle. In the department of the distribution of temperature and meteorology, attention was already directed, at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, to the decrease of temperature with increasing western longitude (the inflection of the isothermal lines): to the law of rotation of the winds, generalized by Francis Bacon; to the diminution of atmospheric moisture and of the quantity of rain, caused by the destruction of forests: and to the decrease of temperature with increasing elevation above the level of the sea and the lower limit of perpetual snow. That this limit is a function of the geographical latitude was first recognized by Petrus Martyr Anghiera in 1510. — Humboldt. Previous to the introduction of the plan of completely inclosing the temperaturemeas-uring fluid in an air-exhausted tube,