This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...which envelopes this globe, our sky would also look black," fr, m reality, the sky is nothing more than the air we breathe. Instead of the solid arch, towering so many thousand miles above us, where our childish fancy put it, the blue sky is nothing but the color of the ocean of air in which we live ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...which envelopes this globe, our sky would also look black," fr, m reality, the sky is nothing more than the air we breathe. Instead of the solid arch, towering so many thousand miles above us, where our childish fancy put it, the blue sky is nothing but the color of the ocean of air in which we live and move; and as to the distance from us, it is all within three or four miles. The sun's light radiates in straight lines; but when it strikes our atmosphere, it is diffused and scattered at all angles, so that aside from the diretT. rays of the sun, we have beams reflected to us from all quarters of the sky. Even after the sun sets, these rays are reflected from the upper air near the horizon, giving us twilight which lasts two hours in summer time and an hour and a half in winter in this latitude. It is now the generally accepted opinion that the diffusion of the sun's light is due to minute drops of water and tiny particles of dust in the air which refletTs the light. That the blue color of the sky is owing to moisture in our atmosphere is apparently confirmed by the intensity of the color during the moist weather of summer when compared with the sky of the more dry weather of winter. In reference to this subjetl, John A. Van Dyke says: --"Even the clearest atmosphere has some coloring about it. Usually it & indefinable blue. Air-blue means the most delicate of all an colors--something not of surface depth, but of transparency builded up of superimposed strata of air many miles perhaps in thickness. This air-blue is seen at its best in the gorges of the A Ips and in the mountain distances of Scotland." OPINIONS JULY 1 July. God send thee calm and fayre, That happy harvest we may see." When the heat like a mist veil...
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