 | 1831 - 532 pàgines
...receded from it, and seemed to approach Geneva by the right bank of the lake : the image sailing Irom east to west, while the bark was sailing from north...as the object when it first receded from the bark, and was only one half that of the bark, when the phenomenon ceased."— Pp. 258-y. This is something... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1831 - 508 pàgines
...from it, and seemed to approach Geneva by thu right bank of the lake : the image sailing Irom cast to west, while the bark was sailing from north to...as the object when, it first receded from the bark, and was only une lull" that of the bark,whcn the phenomenon ceased." — Pii. Й58-У. This is something... | |
 | David Brewster, Alexander Dallas Bache - 1833 - 674 pàgines
...strata of ice. In 1822, Captain Scoresby recognized his father's ship, the Fame, by its inverted image in the air, although the ship itself was below the...it grew less and less as it receded, and was only one-half that of the bark when 'the phenomenon ceased. While the French army was marching through the... | |
 | David Brewster - 1837 - 432 pàgines
...these cases, the image was directly above the object; but on the 17th of September, 1818, MM. J urine and Soret observed a case of unusual refraction, where...it grew less and less as it receded, and was only one-half that of the bark when the phenomenon ceased. While the French army was marching through the... | |
 | 1839 - 534 pàgines
...the bark, receded from it, and seemed to approach Geneva by the right bank of tho lake, the iuiugo sailing from east to west, while the bark was sailing from north to south. This lateral mirage is known to the inhabitants of Merou, who call it Si-hote (castle of the cold season)... | |
 | David Brewster - 1841 - 432 pàgines
...these cases, the image was directly above the object ; but on the 17th of September, 1818, MM. J urine and Soret observed a case of unusual refraction, where...it grew less and less as it receded, and was only one-half that of the bark when the phenomenon ceased. While the French army was marching through the... | |
 | B. Steill - 1845 - 250 pàgines
...Kome. N. NAI'ADES (Bo.) plants thatininhabit ponds and rivulets : also the name for fresh water shells. sailing from east to west, while the bark was sailing from north to south. — The phenomenon called suspension, or looming, was observed on the river Tigris, in the plain of Bagdad.... | |
 | B. Steill - 1845 - 140 pàgines
...NAI'ADES (Bo.) plants that ininhabit ponds and rivulets : also the name for fresh water shells. Bailing from east to west, while the bark was sailing from north to south. — The phenomenon called suspension, or looming, was observed on the river Tigris, in the plain of Bagdad.... | |
 | 1873 - 744 pàgines
...following the direction of the bark, receded from it, and seemed to approach Geneva by the right bank, the image sailing from east to west, while the bark was sailing from north to south. Colonel Todd mentions that he witnessed this kind of mirage at Hissar, in Central Asia. He describes... | |
 | Sir David Brewster - 1847 - 434 pàgines
...the object A bark about 4000 toisas distant was seen approaching Geneva by the left bank of the kike, and at the same moment there was seen above the water...while the bark was sailing from north to south. The imago was of the same size as the object when it first receded from the bark, but it grew less and... | |
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A bark about 4000 toises distant was seen approaching Geneva by the left bank of the lake, and at the same moment there was seen above the water an image of the sails, which, in place of following the direction of the bark, receded from it, and seemed... 