 | 1857 - 780 strani
...of the sun P" " How can that be? " asked the doctor. "It is nothing else," said the engineer; It is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...— light absorbed by plants and vegetables, being neeetsary for the condensation of carbon during the process of their growth, if it be not carbon in... | |
 | 1858 - 788 strani
...the light of the sun ?" — " How can that beJ — " It is nothing else." said the engineer; "it is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...carbon in another form; and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in fields of coal, that latent light is again brought forth and liberated,... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1858 - 580 strani
...Stephenson. " How can that be ?" asked the Doctor. " It is nothing else," the engineer replied; "it is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...carbon in another form ; and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in fields of coal, that latent light is again brought forth and liberated,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1857 - 550 strani
...sun ? " " How can that be ? " asked the doctor. " It is nothing else," said the engineer : " it is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...carbon in another form, — and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in fields of coal, that latent light is again brought forth and liberated,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1857 - 576 strani
...the sun ?" " How can that be ? " asked the doctor. " It is nothing else," said the engineer : " it is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...carbon in another form, — and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in fields of coal, that latent light is again brought forth and liberated,... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 strani
...sun?' ' How can that be ? ' asked the professor. ' It is nothing else,' said the engineer. ' It is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...carbon in another form ; and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in fields of coal, that latent light is again brought forth and liberated,... | |
 | 1858 - 836 strani
...sun?' — 'How can that be?' asked the doctor. — ' It is nothing else,' said the engineer : ' it ia light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...carbon in another form, — and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in fields of coal, that latent light is again brought forth and liberated,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1858 - 604 strani
...regetables, being necessary for tw rxMtdenaation of carbon during the process of their grovrtb, » it be not carbon in another form, — and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in fields of coal, that latent light IB again brought forth and liberated,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 384 strani
...sun ? " " How can that be ? " asked the doctor. " It is nothing else," said the engineer : " it is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...carbon in another form, — and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in fields of coal, that latent light is again brought forth and liberated,... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 strani
...the sun?" "How can that be? " asked the Doctor... " It is nothing else," said the engineer ; " it is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...carbon in another form ; and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in fields of coal, that latent light is again brought forth and liberated,... | |
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What do you say to the light of the sun?" "How can that be?" asked the doctor. " It is nothing else," said the engineer; "it is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands of years — light, absorbed by plants and vegetables, being necessary... 
