In the West, when temperatures reach insane heights, people talk about frying eggs on pavements. In India, where temperatures have gone beyond insane heights, a soldier in Rajasthan cooked papads in ...
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ON September 9 occurs the centenary of the death of the famous Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, the contemporary of de Saussure and Prevost and the father of Alphonse de Candolle (1806 ...
The first measurements of this increase of temperature were made by Friesleben, Humboldt. Saussure, and others at the commencement of the nineteenth century. “,Ve are now in possession of many ...
The most delicate experiments had been made to determine the matter. De Saussure thought he had succeeded in obtaining heat from the moon, but it was shown that he had been gathering heat from his ...