Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment, or Specialities of a Residence Above the Clouds (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment, or Specialities of a Residence Above the Clouds Being then asked by various friends to prepare some account Of the personal experiences under which the said Observations were made, as likely to subserve many purposes not reached by the numerical State ments of the memoir, -i have endeavoured, in the following pages, to throw together those parts Of my, journal which seemed best calculated to bring out the Specialities Of scientific life, on' a high southern mountain. Readers who would study the history, statistics, or physics, of tenerihe, will find them treated Of at length in the several. Admirable publica tions by George glas, Viera, Von Buch, macgregor, and barker-webb cum Berthelot, here, I have only attempted an humble record of particular labours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.