 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,...  TREATISE OF THE MECHANICAL THEORY OF HEAT - Page 16by R.S. McCULLOCH - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Chemistry - 1774 - 628 pages
...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...communicated in these experiments, except it be motion,"-)- and then goes on to urge a zealous and persistent investigation of the laws governing this motion.... | |
 | 1798 - 618 pages
...to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and Communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.' The Count does not presume to deliver mere conjectures concerning the mode by which that particular... | |
 | 664 pages
...to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." Boyle made two pieces of brass to rub against each other in the exhausted receiver of an air-pump ;... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." Boyle made two pieces of brass to rub against each other in the exhausted receiver of an air-pump ;... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...form any distinct idea of any thing, capable of being excited, and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion. Singular Instance of atmospherical Refraction. By LATHAM, Esq. FRS % AS — [1798.] JULY 26., about... | |
 | Joseph Jones - Malaria - 1859 - 444 pages
...appears to me," Count Rumford remarks, " entirely difficult, if not quite impossible to form any direct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." One of the most important... | |
 | American Medical Association - Electronic journals - 1859 - 740 pages
...appears to me," Count Rumford remarks, " entirely difficult, if not quite impossible to form any direct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." One of the most important... | |
 | John Pringle Nichol - Physics - 1860 - 942 pages
...case. He therefore concluded that it was "extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited, and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." Further, Rumford... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1863 - 538 pages
...boring of cannon, observed that it was ' extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of 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, Davy wrote:... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1863 - 500 pages
...boring of cannon, observed that it was ' extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of 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, Davy wrote... | |
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