Van Nostrand's eclectic engineering magazine (1869)
[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 93
n gained by statement is vague, but as a scientific de- vsuch knowledge, or lost for want of it. finition is incorrect. Air may move per- Assuredly if, so far as the merchant ser- pendicularly to the earth's surface, but in vice is concerned, knowledge (in this re- such cases it is not called wind… … would be scarcely likely to add to our ascending or descending current ; but the naval glories. important part of the definition I have It is thus, then, that I wish to put the o-iven is the last clause. The velocity of science of nautical meteorology before the air is distinctly sensible; unless…
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