Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 566
ile thecolder air flows in over the door-sill. The flame of a lightedcandle may be used (as represented in Pig. 390) to detect thedirection of the currents. A current of air may always benoticed flowing towards the sunny side of a building, whichsupplies the current rising along the heated wall.… … Fig 390. strongly heated air rises, and its place is supplied by colder air,which flows in on both sides from the temperate zones; thuscurrents are established which would blow directly north andsouth, were it not that the rota-tion of the globe causes them todeviate from this direction, whileother…
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