 Heat, then, or that power which prevents the actual contact of the corpuscles of bodies, and which is the cause of our peculiar sensations of heat and cold, may be defined a peculiar motion, probably a vibration of the corpuscles of bodies, tending to...  Heat: A Mode of Motion - Pàgina 99per John Tyndall - 1868 - 520 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Geologists' Association - 1891 - 806 pàgines
...notion of repulsion is not altogether new. Sir Humphrey Davy, before any ot us were born, defined heat as " a peculiar motion, probably a vibration of the corpuscles of bodies tending it> separate them," and he called heat a " repulsive motion. "f These theories of the ultimate constitution... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pàgines
...vibration is heat, or the repulsive power. Heat, then, or that power which prevents the actual contact of the corpuscles of bodies, and which is the cause of...peculiar sensations of heat and cold, may be defined a peculiar motion, probably a vibration of the corpuscles of bodies, tending to separate them, it may... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 500 pàgines
...vibration is heat, or the repulsive power. Heat, then, or that power which prevents the actual contact of the corpuscles of bodies, and which is the cause of...peculiar sensations of heat and cold, may be defined a peculiar motion, probably a vibration of the corpuscles of bodies, tending to separate them. It may... | |
 | 1864 - 560 pàgines
...corpuscles of bodies, and which is the cause of our peculiar sensations of heat and cold, may be defined a peculiar motion, probably a vibration, of the corpuscles...them. It may with propriety be called the repulsive mo tion." " Bodies exist in different states, and these states depend on the differences of the action... | |
 | 1864 - 572 pàgines
...experiments, Davy proceeds thus:— " Heat, then, or that power which prevents the actual contact of the corpuscles of bodies, and which is the cause of...peculiar sensations of heat and cold, may be defined a peculiar motion, probably a vibration, of the corpuscles of bodies, tending to separate them. It... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1866 - 492 pàgines
...vibration is heat, or the repulsive power. Heat, then, or that power which prevents the actual contact of the corpuscles of bodies, and which is the cause of...peculiar sensations of heat and cold, may be defined a peculiar motion, probably a vibration of the corpuscles of bodies, tending to separate them. It may... | |
 | 1866 - 646 pàgines
...vibration, is heat, or the repulsive power. Heat, then, or that power which prevents the actual contact of the corpuscles of bodies, and which is the cause of...peculiar sensations of heat and cold, may be defined a peculiar motion, probably a vibration of the corpuscles of bodies, tending to separate them. It may,... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1868 - 148 pàgines
...quantities of attraction and repulsion.' ' Heat, then, or that power which prevents the actual contact of the corpuscles of bodies, and which is the cause of...peculiar sensations of heat and cold, may be defined a peculiar motion, probably a vibration, of the corpuscles of bodies, tending to separate them. It... | |
 | Henry Bence Jones - 1868 - 240 pàgines
...is not matter." " Again," he says, " heat, then, or that power which prevents the actual contact of the corpuscles of bodies, and which is the cause of our peculiar sensations of heat and cold, may be denned as a peculiar motion, probably as a vibration of the corpuscles of bodies tending to separate... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1876 - 416 pàgines
...power which prevents the actual contact of the corpuscles of bodies, and which is the cause of our own sensations of heat and cold, may be defined as a peculiar...may with propriety be called the repulsive motion. Bodies exist in different states, and these states depend upon the action of attraction and of the... | |
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