Book/Printed Material Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the earth, its geological and meteorological phenomena, and its astronomical elements.
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Image 1 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... r^:-. T ^•^^PsSi i Li/-- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 2 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... I LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 1 SUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 7 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... STUDIES OF THE EARTH. AN ESSAY ON THE FIGURE AND SURFACE-DIVISIONS OF THE EARTH, ITS GEOLOGICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA, AND ITS ASTRONOMICAL ELEMENTS. 1/ BY SAMUEL ELLIOTT COUES, WASHINGTON, D. C. Methinks...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 8 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... .C Entered according to an act of Congress, in the year 1860, by Samuel Elliott Coubs, in the Clerk s office of the District Court of the District of Columbia. Printed by...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 9 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... TO HONORABLE ISAAC I. STEVENS, or WASHINGTON TERRITORY, AS A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TOR HIS TALENTS AND HIGH ATTAINMENTS IN SCIENCE AND IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OP HIS GENEROUS FRIENDSHIP, THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 10 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 11 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... A PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. The following remarks are offered at the outset, in order that the character of the Work, its range of subject, and the circumstances under which it is published may...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 12 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... IV. PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. tribunals being established for the departments, while there is no superior court of appeal from the local jurisdictions. The result of this is altogether evil. Caelum non animum mutant,...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 13 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. V. which are the reflecting medium of the dawn of day; the risen sun drying up these wreaths of vapor. Impressed by these views, the author, as his stand point,...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 14 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... VI. PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. the earth s equatorial redundancy or the ellipticity of the figure of our globe and the planetary element is the eccentric annual path of the earth or the el-...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 15 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. VII. by law, and will be discovered by a search for them in the direction which was indicated. Can common sense regard the fact, and the discovery of the fact,...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 16 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... VIII. PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. law declares the relation of the facts, and the facts laid side by side become as a mirror to throw back the light of fundamental truth into the mind....- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 17 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. IX the harmony. The earth s structure appears, it is most true, to be the result of the wildest caprice. A map of the world presents an appearance as if...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 18 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... X. PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. been shown, is an element of the extent of the terrestrial masses. The ve- locity of the axial rotation of the earth s surface is not of one degree...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 19 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. XL. ciple most deeply inwrought into the fabric of the system. The harmonic law of Kepler is one phase of it. Each planet is a sub-entity of the system, and...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 20 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... XII. PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. city which, associated with its special distance, results in a period which is one of the system of periods by which the relative position of all parts of the...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 21 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. XIII. of nature. There is, clearly, one relation between the subdivisions of the orbit and those of the earth and if one part of the earth is thus in correlation...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 22 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... XIV. PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. There exists, it is true, many exceptions to the detailed system of the ar- rangement of the terrestrial masses. These extents of land often fail to reach, and often...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 23 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION.- XV. of the solar system as before produced. Conversely, from tlie distance of the sun and the fraction of a day in a year, the distance between the tropics or...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 24 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... XVI. PEELIMINAEY DISSEETATION. (26.227 miles) and the sun s circumference plus T V of it equals 365.24 times the diameter of the earth. The question thus is settled, but this is a...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 25 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... PEELIMINAEY DISSEETATION. XVII. the radius of the earth s and moon s mean common orbit around the sun (95,375,000 miles) 401.86 times: 401.86 16 (the ratio) 25.115 25.115 0.376 24.739, one half...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 26 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... XVIII. PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. lable. The number of lunations in one year is thus proved to be in relation with the number of days in one year as both are calculable from the...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 27 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. XIX. of description do not disprove its glory nor detract from the joy which the beams of the sun throw over a happy world intensely tinted by the light from...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 28 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... IX. PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. parts, the system of things is produced and maintained. This knowledge,^- beyond perhaps, a mere smattering, pertains to the Creator alone. The author has no inclination and no reason...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 29 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. XXI. -having their forms and their associated periods in the most perfect harmony with the parts and their periods created on the most enlarged scale of expansion, a regulated gradation...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 30 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... XXII. PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION*. sun (14.48 times its circumference) is 39,784.000 miles. The annual equa- torial axial velocity of the Earth (365.24 times its circumference) is 9,108,000, 4.11 times of which is 37,450,000;...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 31 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 32 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 33 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... THE EARTH. SECTION FIRST. Introductory. It is said that the planetary system, in its relations of absolute magni- tude, relative position of the axes of rotation, and density, has, to our conception,...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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- Date: 1860
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Image 35 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 36 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... 4 THE EARTH. form, every form gliding gently into other analogous forms, the derivatives retaining the character of the generating type as fully as their positions and func- tions will admit. As...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 37 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... THE EAETH. O t original fluid earth served also to account for the coincidence brought to light by Professor Owen. In stead of tracing it to astral phenomena, this idea was buried...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 38 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... 6 THE EAETH. harmonious relations of the masses of land and areas of water, the symmetry of their breadths and lengths, the one direction of the trend of the coasts, and the...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 39 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... THE EARTH. SECTION SECOND. The Major [North and South) and the Minor (East and West) Axes of the Conti- nent, and the Bearing, or Trend, of their Coasts. Attention is first to...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Image 40 of Studies of the earth. An essay on the figure and surface-divisions of the ... 8 THE EAETH. As a general law, where the terminations of dry land are mountainous the oceans are deep near the coast; shallow seas, however, are found south of the lofty terminations...- Contributor: Coues, Samuel Elliott - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860