 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1855 - 570 pàgines
...acquired a sufficient extent, the lightning strikes between the cloud and the earth in two opposite places, the path of the lightning lying through the...branches. The longer this lightning continues, the rarer does the cloud grow, and the less dark in its appearance, till it breaks in different places, and shows... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1867 - 542 pàgines
...acquired a sufficient extent, the lightning strikes between the cloud and the earth in two opposite places, the path of the lightning lying through the...branches. The longer this lightning continues, the rarer does the cloud grow, and the less dark in its appearance, till it breaks in different places and shows... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1869 - 664 pàgines
...mass. When the cloud has acquired a sufficient extent, the lightning strikes the earth in two opposite places, the path of the lightning lying through the whole body of the cloud and its branches. A continuation of these discharges of electric matter ratifies the cloud, and in time it dissipates.... | |
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... over a large tract of country, the lightning is seen to dart from one part of it to another, and often to illuminate its whole mass. When the cloud has acquired a sufficient extent, the lightning strikes between the cloud and the earth, in two opposite... 
