 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,...  Elementary Manual on Steam and the Steam Engine - Page 51by Andrew Jamieson - 1897 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Chemistry - 1774 - 628 pages
...from any surrounding objects, or by compression of the materials employed or acted upon, he says — " It appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not...capable of being excited and communicated in the manner that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion,"-)- and then goes... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 ;... | |
 | 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 ;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1861 - 460 pages
...cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to bo extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Pringle Nichol - Physics - 1860 - 942 pages
...suspect that such was the case. He therefore concluded that it was "extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything...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 - 500 pages
...BISULPHIDE OF CARBON VAPOUR. 71 stance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in those experiments, except it be MOTION. When the history of the dynamical theory of heat is written,... | |
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