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
| John Gray McKendrick - 1888 - 560 pàgines
...the particles of the metal, thus producing the phenomena of heat. ' It appears to me,' he remarks, ' 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.' " Sir... | |
| Lothar Meyer - 1888 - 644 pàgines
...material substance : and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion. himself lavour of Eumford's views, and confirmed them by carefr chosen and convincing... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1889 - 486 pàgines
...and find Rumford's conclusion regarding the heat generated in boring a brass gun : " 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 ; " 1 and... | |
| Andrew Jamieson - 1889 - 532 pàgines
...cannot possibly be a material substance ; it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not impossi 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... | |
| Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith - 1890 - 938 pàgines
...continue to furnish without limitation «»nnot possibly be a material substance ; nhd it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible,...anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." About... | |
| William Robinson (M.E.) - 1890 - 658 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 in which heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION." *... | |
| Robert Henry Thurston - 1890 - 704 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... | |
| John Tyndall - 1892 - 522 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 those experiments, except it be Motion.' ' Mode of Motion, Lecture II. 1884. LOUIS PASTEUR, HIS LIFE... | |
| Peter Guthrie Tait - 1892 - 392 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 heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." 28.... | |
| Richard Glazebrook - 1893 - 208 pàgines
...concluding, therefore, that heat cannot be a material substance, and that thus it appeared ' to him to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible,...anything capable of being excited and communicated by these experiments except it be motion.' Instead of motion, we should now say energy. But Rumford's... | |
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