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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 894 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BUYS See also:

BALLOT (from Ital. ballotta, dim. of balla, a ball)

BALLOT'S See also:

LAW, in See also:

METEOROLOGY (Gr. JerEwpa, and hb'yos, i.e. the science of things in the air)

meteorology, the name given to a law which may be expressed as follows:—" Stand with your back to the See also:

wind; the See also:

low-pressure See also:

AREA

area will be on your See also:

LEFT

left-See also:

hand." This See also:

RULE

rule, the truth of which was first recognized by the See also:

AMERICAN

American meteorologists J. H. See also:

COFFIN (from Lat. cophinus, Gr. K64wos, a coffer, chest or basket, but never meaning " coffin " in its present sense)

Coffin and W. Ferrel, is a See also:

DIRECT

direct consequence of Ferrel's Law (q.v.). It is approximately true in the higher latitudes of the See also:

NORTHERN

Northern Hemisphere, and is reversed in the See also:

SOUTHERN

Southern Hemisphere, but the See also:

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle between barometric gradient and wind is not a right angle in low latitudes. The law takes its name from C. H. D. Buys Ballott, a Dutch meteorologist, who published it in the Comptes rendus, See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

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