 All that such an animal can do is to liberate that store of force, or potential energy, which is locked up in its food. It is the chemical change which food suffers in the body of an animal that liberates the previously pent-up...  Croonian lectures on matter and force - Pàgina 133per Henry Bence Jones - 1868 - 223 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1867 - 400 pàgines
...however, rapidly dissipated the very crude notions which then existed regarding this mysterious agency. We now know that an animal, however high its organization...capable of moving a grain of sand than a stone can fall upward, or a locomotive drive a train without fuel. All that such an animal can do is to liberate that... | |
 | 1867 - 400 pàgines
...however, rapidly dissipated the very crude notions which then existed regarding this mysterious agency. We now know that an animal, however high its organization...amount of force capable of moving a grain of sand man a stone can fall upward, or a locomotive drive a train without fuel. All that such an animal can... | |
 | 1867 - 826 pàgines
...Prof. Frankland, of the Koyal liL-iilution. He starts out with the axiom that EH animal, no matter however high its organization may be. can no more...amount of force capable of moving a grain of sand than л -tone can fall npward or a locomotive drive a trun without fuel. All that an animal can do k to... | |
 | 1868 - 828 pàgines
...Prof. Frankland, of the Royal Institntion. lie starts oat with the axiom that an animal, no matter however high its organization may be, can no more...capable of moving a grain of sand than a stone can fall npward or a locomotive drive a train without fuel. All that an animal can do is, to liberate that store... | |
 | 1869 - 824 pàgines
...Prof. Frankland, of the Royal Institution. lie starts out with the axiom that an .mimai, no matter however high its organization may be, can no more...of force capable of moving a grain of sand than a ¿tone can fall upward or a locomotive drive a train without fuel. All that an animal can do is, to... | |
 | 1869 - 832 pàgines
...by Prof. Frankland, of the Royal Institution. He starts oat with the axiom that an animal, no matter however high its organization may be, can no more...amount of force capable of moving a grain of sand than s stone can fall upward or a locomotive drive a train without fuel. All that an animal can do if, to... | |
 | 1871 - 308 pàgines
...the careful observer even now, although, as Dr. Frankland says, science has proved that " an animal can no more generate an amount of force capable of moving a grain of sand than a stone can fall upward or a locomotive drive a train without fuel."22 In studying the characters of muscular action... | |
 | 1870 - 488 pàgines
...the careful observer even now, although, as Dr. Frankland says, science has proved that " an animal can no more generate an amount of force capable of moving a grain of sand than a stone can fall upward or a locomotive drive a train without fuel."" In studying the characters of muscular action... | |
 | 1884 - 400 pàgines
...but as Dr. Frankland * * Source of Muscular Power. Proc. Roy last, June 8, 1866. has said: "An animal can no more generate an amount of force capable of moving a grain of sand, than a ctone can fall upward or a locomotive drive a train without fuel." As the nmount of carbonic acid exhaled... | |
 | 1891 - 446 pàgines
...it was at one time supposed to be created by the animal, *but as Dr. Frankland has said: ' An animal can no more generate an amount of force capable of moving a grain of sand, than a stone can fall upward or a locomotive drive a train without fuel." As the amount of carbonic acid exhaled by the lungs... | |
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