 | John Timbs - Discoveries in science - 1860 - 432 pages
...The aerial phenomena witnessed by Mr. E. Vivian, MA, in a balloon-ascent from the metropolis, were, the altitude of the horizon, which remained practically...the horizon and the balloon seemed to be stationary : the definite outlines and pure colouring of objects directly beneath, although reduced to microscopic... | |
 | John Timbs - Inventions - 1860 - 478 pages
...The aerial phenomena witnessed by Mr. E. Vivian, MA, in a balloon ascent from the metropolis, were, the altitude of the horizon, which remained practically...of convex, and to recede during the rapid ascent, while the horizon and the balloon seemed to be stationary : the definite outlines and pure coloring... | |
 | Koresh - Earth - 1898 - 248 pages
...corresponding hemisphere reversed. — GLACIER. Concave Instead of Convex. " The chief peculiarity of a view from a balloon at a considerable elevation, was...LEVEL WITH THE EYE, at an elevation of two miles, cansing the surface of the earthi to appear CONCAVE instead of convex, and to recede during the rapid... | |
 | "Rectangle" (pseudonym of T. Winship.) - Cosmology - 1899 - 212 pages
...globular assumption, as the following quotations show. The London Journal of 1 8th July, 1857, says: — " The chief peculiarity of the view from a balloon at a considerable elevation was the altitude of the hori/on, which remained practically on a level with the eye at an elevation of two miles, causing the... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1858 - 600 pages
...drawings of aerial phenomena, from sketches taken OD the spot. The chief peculiarities of these were, the altitude of the horizon, which remained practically...the horizon and the balloon seemed to be stationary :—the definite outlines and pure colouring of objects directly beneath, although reduced to microscopic... | |
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MA, in a balloon-ascent from the metropolis, were, the altitude of the horizon, which remained practically on a level with the eye at an elevation of two miles, causing the surface of the earth to appear concave instead of convex, and to recede during... 