 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1848 - 518 pages
...animals, only the Latin translation of Michael Scot from the Arabic. (381) A work of Albertus Magnus bearing the title of Liber Cosmographicus de Natura...incidence of the sun's rays in heating the ground, which have excited my surprise. He owes perhaps his having been celebrated by Daute, less to himself than... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm H. Alexander freiherr von Humboldt - 1848 - 524 pages
...animals, only the Latin translation of Michael Scot from the Arabic. (381) A work of Albertus Magnus bearing the title of Liber Cosmographicus de Natura...incidence of the sun's rays in heating the ground, which have excited my surprise. He owes perhaps his having been celebrated by Dante, less to himself than... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1873 - 860 pages
...structure and physiology of plants. One of his works, bearing the title of Liber Cosmographicns dt Notara Locorum, is a species of physical geography. I have...incidence of the sun's rays in heating the ground, which have excited my surprise.'* Jourdain, another modern critic, gays, ' whether we consider him as a theologian... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1873 - 886 pages
...and physiology of plants. One of his works, bearing the title of Liter Cof-moyrapfiicus d» Xatura Locorum, is a species of physical geography. I have...incidence of the sun's rays in heating the ground, which have excited my surprise.'* Jourdain, another modern critic, туя, ' whether we consider him as a... | |
 | 1873 - 862 pages
...structure and physiology of plants. One of his works, bearing the title of Liber Cormographicvs de fi'atura Locorum, is a species of physical geography. I have...incidence of the sun's rays in heating the ground, which have excited my surprise.'* Jourdain, another modern critic, saya, ' whether we consider him as a theologian... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1878 - 698 pages
...organic structure and physiology of plants. One of his works, bearing the title of Liber Cofnioyraphicus de Natura Locorum, is a species of physical geography....incidence of the sun's rays in heating the ground, which have excited my surprise.'* Jourdain, another modern critic, says, ' whether we consider him as a theologian... | |
 | Augusta Theodosia Drane - 1881 - 804 pages
...structure and physiology of plants. One of his works, bearing the title of Liber Cosmographicus de Jtfatura Locorum, is a species of physical geography. I have...incidence of the sun's rays in heating the ground, which have excited my surprise." J Jourdain, another modern critic, says, " Whether we consider him as a... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1880 - 470 pages
...excited my surprise, regarding the simultaneous dependence of climate on latitude and elevation, and the effect of different angles of incidence of the sun's rays in heating the earth's surface. Albertus probably owes the praise conferred on him by Dante, less to himself than... | |
 | Eugene A. Magevney - 1900 - 338 pages
...centuries later Albertus Magnus, had with matters whose discovery we are accustomed to look upon as of comparatively recent date. We can afford to marvel...different angles of incidence of the sun's rays in in the " Dark Ages." heating the ground, which had excited my surprise. :l * As text-books were rare,... | |
 | James Joseph Walsh - 1907 - 660 pages
...given the headings under which his scientific research must be considered. He says : "Albertus Magnus was equally active and influential in promoting the...incidence of the sun's rays in heating the ground, which have excited my surprise." To take up some of Humboldt's headings in their order and illustrate them... | |
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Cofnioyraphicus de Natura Locorum, is a species of physical geography. I have found in it considerations on the dependence of temperature concurrently on latitude and elevation, and on the effect of different angles of incidence of the sun's rays in heating... 
