The Atmosphere

Автор: James Glaisher
Издательство: Harper & Brothers, Publishers
Страниц: 487
Год: 1874
Размер: 16,4 МБ

THE following work is translated and abridged from M. Flammarion's LJ 'Atmosphere, Paris, 1872. That some curtailment of the text of the original work was requisite will be apparent when it is stated that the French Edition contains 824 large pages of closely printed matter, and is of more than twice the extent of the present volume. Not only was some compression necessary in order to bring the work within a reasonable compass, but, independently of this, one or two chapters, such as that on the Eespiration and Alimentation of Plants, appeared to have so remote a connection with the subject of the work the Atmosphere that their omission would in any case have been desirable.