Researches on meteorology / by Bennet Dowler.

  • Dowler, Bennet, 1797-1879.
Date:
[1848?]
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    RESEARCHES ON METEOROLOGY. BY BENNET DOWLER, M. D. 'ItlUQ I Meteorology by no means corresponds in a literal sense with its Greek origin—that is, pireupos, sublimis; lofty, elevated above the earth; celestial or atmospheric phenomena ; for, Hecla, pouring her flames through boundless wastes of snow—the earthquake, the'Gulf- stream—physical geography—hydrography and medical topography, are as much subjects of this science as the shooting stars—the thunder- bearing cloud—the hurricane—the hail—the rain—the cloud—water- spouts, those cataracts of the sky—the aurora borealis—the solar walk and milky way— the sun from behind the moon, in dim eclipse —the monstrous Spectre of the Brocken which looms on the summit of the Hartz Mountains, and which terrifies the good people of Hanover or the dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow conspicuous, with seven listed colors gay. In fact, Meteorology is becoming more terrene, and less celestial less astrological. Our distinguished countryman, the late Dr. Noah Webster, in his elaborate, but dry work on Epidemics—a work in two volumes, published nearly half a century since, without logical analysis or lucidity of arrangement, but valuable for its historical data, has with unsurpassed research ransacked ' the unrelenting Past,'—collected the debris of departed centuries,—remarshalled the fearful portents, enumerated the flaming comets,—recounted the planetary commotions and pointed out the astral harbingers which appeared from time to time in the sidereal heavens, to warn an emperor of impending death, —to foreshadow an approaching earthquake.—or to usher in a mortal epidemic. The. come,ary visUors fa. U- deeps of illfi„ity, as K,,