 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 - 824 pàgines
...Prof. Frankland, of the Royal Institution. Ие starts out 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 upward or a locomotive drive a train without fuel. All that an animal can do is, to liberate that store... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1866 - 742 pàgines
...that peculiar force which is developed by living animals, and which wo term the vital force!" but the progress of scientific discovery has rendered the...that an animal, however high its organization may be, cnn no more generate an amount of force capable of moving a grain of sand, than a stone can fall upwards... | |
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