| Robert Boyle - 1725 - 768 pàgines
...by cold, " into ice ; which is a hard, pellucid, M fufible, brittle ftone ; and this ftone re" turns into water by heat ; and vapour " returns into water by cold. Earth, by " hear, becomes fire ; and, by cold, reи turns into earth. Dcnfe bodies, by fer" mentation, rarify... | |
| Isaac Newton - 1730 - 403 pàgines
...changes by Heat into Vapour, which is a fort of Air, and by Cold into Ice, which is a hard, pellucid, brittle, fufible Stone; and this Stone returns into...Water by Cold. Earth by Heat becomes Fire, and by Cold returns into Earth. Denfe Bodies by Fermentation rarify into feveral forts of Air, and this Air... | |
| Robert Boyle - 1738 - 964 pàgines
...a hard, pcllu• .•• ••_ I •;• • . '. . . cid, fufible, brittle flone ; and this Hone returns into water by heat ; and vapour returns into water by cold. Earths by heat, becomes fire ; . and, by cold, returns into earth. . Denfe bodies, by fermentation,... | |
| Hippocrates - 1849 - 496 pàgines
...heat into vapour, a sort of air; and by cold into ice, which is a hard, pellucid, brittle, fusible stone, and this stone returns into water by heat,...water by cold. Earth, by heat, becomes fire, and by cold returns into earth." 2 1 Op. cit., iv. I may further mention that all the late researches of chemical... | |
| William Robert Grove - 1855 - 300 pàgines
...into vapour, which is a sort of air, and by cold into ice, which is a hard, pellucid, brittle, fusible stone, and this stone returns into water by heat, and vapour returns into water by cold. • • • And, among such various and strange transmuta• LIGHT. 149 tions, why may not nature change... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 512 pàgines
...into vapour, which is a sort of air, and by cold into ice, which is a hard, pellucid, brittle, fusible stone, and this stone returns into water by heat, and vapour returns into water by cold. * * And, among such various and strange transmutations, why may not nature change bodies into light,... | |
| James Jeans - 488 pàgines
...into vapour, which is a sort of air ; and by cold into ice, which is hard, pellucid, brittle, fusible stone ; and this stone returns into water by heat, and vapour returns into water by cold.. ..Eggs grow from insensible magnitudes, and change into animals ; tadpoles, into frogs ; and worms,... | |
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