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Having concentrated the lunar rays with a lens of over three feet diameter upon his thermoscopic pile, Melloni found that the needle had deviated from 0° 6' to 4° 8', according to the lunar phase.

From Moon Lore by Harley, Timothy

Soils, amount of thermoscopic action on various, 144; mechanical effects of shaking in the Netherlands, 344; effect of frost on, in United States, 344.

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.