 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...(I cannot now be exact as to the time) the black being warmed most by the sun, was sunk so low as 10 be below the stroke of the sun's rays - the dark blue...not learn from hence, that black clothes are not so f,t to wear in a hot sunny climate or season, as white ones ; because in such clothes the hody is more... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...remained on the surface of the snow, not having entered it at all. What signifies philosopby that docs not apply to some use ? May we not learn from hence,...that black clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot sunn/ climate or season, as white ones ; because in such clothes the body is more heated by the suu... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...rays; the dark blue almost as low, the lighter blue not quite so much as the dark, the other colors less as they were lighter; and the quite white remained...use ? May we not learn from hence that black clothes arc not so fit to wear in a hot, sunny climate or season as white ones, because in such clothes the... | |
 | James Parton - 1865 - 672 pages
...rays; the dark blue almost as low. the lighter blue not quite so much as the dark, the other colors less as they were lighter ; and the quite white remained...that black clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot, suuny climate or season, as white ones ?" He draws from this ingenious experiment many more practical... | |
 | John Tyndall - Religion and science - 1871 - 438 pages
...low, the lighter blue not quite so much as the dark, the other colors less as they were lighter. The white remained on the surface of the snow, not having...that black clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot, Bunny climate or season as white ones ; because in such clothes the body is more heated by the sun... | |
 | John Platts - Curiosities and wonders - 1876 - 986 pages
...below the stroke of the snn's rays; the dark blue almost as low, the lighter blue not quite so low as the dark, the other colours less as they were lighter...some use? May we not learn from hence, that black cloths are not so fit to wear in a hot sunny climate, or season, as white ones ; because, in such clothes... | |
 | Carl Schurz - United States - 1913 - 570 pages
...surface of the snow, not having entered it at all. (What signifies philosophy that does not apply to home use !) May we not learn from hence, that black clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot, sunny climate as white ones? The thing was indeed so simple that it appears astonishing, not how anybody should have... | |
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... less as they were lighter; and the quite white remained on the surface of the snow, not having entered it at all. What signifies philosophy that does not apply to some use ? May we not learn from hence that black clothes... 