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The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related

Tyndall, John, 1820-1893· 4 chapters· 143,687 words

Valley of Lauterbrunnen; Pliability of rocks; the Wengern Alp; the Jungfrau and Silberhorn; Ice avalanches; Glaciers formed from them; Scene from the Little Scheideck; the Lower Grindelwald Glacier; the Heisse Platte--its Avalanches; Ice Minarets and Blocks; Echoes of the Wett...

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4. PART II.

Aber im stillen Gemach entwirft bedeutende Zirkel Sinnend der Weise, beschleicht forschend den schaffenden Geist, Prueft der Stoffe Gewalt, der Magnete Hassen und Lieben, Folgt...

3. PART I.

Ages are your days, Ye grand expressors of the present tense And types of permanence; Firm ensigns of the fatal Being Amid these coward shapes of joy and grief That will not bid...

2. PART II.

What is Light?--notion of the ancients; requires Time to pass through Space; Roemer, Bradley, Fizeau; Emission Theory supported by Newton, opposed by Huyghens; the Wave Theory e...

1. PART I.

Valley of Lauterbrunnen; Pliability of rocks; the Wengern Alp; the Jungfrau and Silberhorn; Ice avalanches; Glaciers formed from them; Scene from the Little Scheideck; the Lower...