 | 1774 - 628 pągines
...materials employed or acted upon, he says — " It appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion,"-)- and... | |
 | 1798 - 618 pągines
...bodies, can continue to furnish with* out limitation t cannot possibly be a material fiibßance ” and 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, in the manner the heat was excited and Communicated... | |
 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1798 - 550 pągines
...fyftem of bodies, can continue to furnifti without limitation, eannot poffibly be a material fubftance i and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impoffible, to form any diftiuct idea of any thing, capable of being excited and communicated, in the... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1799 - 652 pągines
...fyflem of bodies can continue to furnifh -without limitation^ cannot poffibly be a material fubftance j and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impoffible, to form any diilincģ idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated in the... | |
 | John Gibson MacVicar - 1830 - 674 pągines
...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, to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated in the manner in which beat was excited, and communicated... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pągines
...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, to form any distinct idea of any thing, capable of being excited, and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated... | |
 | 1861 - 460 pągines
...to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to bo extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form...distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and commuuicated in these experiments, except it be motion." The Count does not presume to deliver mere... | |
 | John Pringle Nichol - 1860 - 942 pągines
...air, &c., but found no reason to suspect that such was the case. He therefore concluded that it was "extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to...anything capable of being excited, and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." Further,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pągines
...Eumford, inquiring into the source of heat developed in the boring of cannon, observed that it was ' extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form...anything capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion.' In 1812,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 500 pągines
...Rumford, inquiring into the source of heat developed in the boring of cannon, observed that it was ' extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form...anything capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion.' In 1812,... | |
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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, to... 
