It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible,... Locomotive Firemen's Magazine - Pàgina 3751896Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Samuel Miller - 1803 - 572 pàgines
...that by any means one of the smallest which Count RUMFORD suggests, viz. " that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish, without, limitation, cannot be a material substance." Yet tjie electric fluid is granted, on all hands, to be a distinct substance... | |
| 1822 - 494 pàgines
...heat could not be matter ; for, says he — " It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue...limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance." " Another method of producing heat is by the taking place of chemical attractions. Every chemical attraction... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pàgines
...experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue...it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing, capable of being excited, and communicated,... | |
| John Gibson MacVicar - 1830 - 674 pàgines
...experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to...it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - 1852 - 430 pàgines
...that heat could" not be matter: for says he, " It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue...limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance." Another method of producing heat is by the taking place of chemical attractions. Every chemical attraction,... | |
| 1861 - 460 pàgines
...that the source of it appeared evidently to be inexhaustible, the Count adds that "anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue...be a material substance ; and it appears to me to bo extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being... | |
| John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pàgines
...inexhaustible. (The italics are Rumford's.) It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to...it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in... | |
| John Tyndall - 1863 - 500 pàgines
...inexhaustible. (The italics are Rumford's.) It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to...furnish without limitation cannot possibly be a material subCOMPRESSION OF BISULPHIDE OF CARBON VAPOUR. 71 stance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult,... | |
| John Tyndall - 1864 - 484 pàgines
...inexhaustible. (The italics are Eumford's.) It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to...it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in... | |
| 1864 - 572 pàgines
...experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible." " It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue...it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited, and communicated... | |
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