 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,...  Croonian lectures on matter and force - Pàgina 26per Henry Bence Jones - 1868 - 223 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1876 - 416 pàgines
...can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance. It appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible,...anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner in which the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion.... | |
 | William Garnett - 1878 - 236 pàgines
...continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible,...anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION." (Rumford.)... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1878 - 522 pàgines
...compression of the materials employed or acted upon, says : " It appears to me 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." ' He... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - 1879 - 174 pàgines
...friction appearing, from these experiments, to be inexhaustible, he was led to conclude that it was 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 was motion. 175. Davy... | |
 | Thomas Minchin Goodeve - 1879 - 364 pàgines
...limitation cannot possibly be a material substance ; and 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 heat was excited and communicated in these experiments except it be motion.' DAVY'S EXPERIMENT... | |
 | Robert Routledge - 1881 - 748 pàgines
...parts of the apparatus. Thus he arrives at the following J remarkable conclusion : " It appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible,...anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, EXCEPT IT BE MOTION." These... | |
 | Connecticut Valley Historical Society - 1881 - 356 pàgines
...foundries, to find that the friction produced actually caused water to boil, and he finally says it Is " difficult, if not quite Impossible, to form any distinct...anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner In which the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be Motion,"... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1881 - 572 pàgines
...continue to furnish without limitation cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to mo to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated in those experiments, except it be MOTION." When... | |
 | Gaston Tissandier - 1882 - 830 pàgines
...continue to furnish without limitation cannot possibly be a material substance, and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible,...excited and communicated in these experiments except by motion" A few years later Sir Humphrey Davy made his conclusive experiments, and the Material theory... | |
 | Henry Watts - 1882 - 1118 pàgines
...by which the ylinder and borer were supported, he says:—"It appears to me to be extremely imVulf. if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being xcited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated i these experiments, except... | |
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