 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
 | Henry Bence Jones - 1868 - 240 pages
...which is excited by friction. "It appears to me," he says, "to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments, except motion." In 1799, Davy published a paper on heat and light, in which he said... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1868 - 560 pages
...cannot possibly be a material substance; 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.... | |
 | Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1869 - 786 pages
...experiments, appears evidently inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which insulated bodies can continue to furnish without limitation,...anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiment?, except it be MOTION." In the same paper, amongst other experiments performed by... | |
 | Charles Frederick Winslow, M.D. - 1869 - 514 pages
...a material substance; and it " appeai's to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impos" sible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being " excited and communicated in these experiments, except it " be MOTION." Ignorant of causes, Eumford explicitly stated that he was... | |
 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - Charities - 1870 - 608 pages
...cannot possibly be a material substance ; 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 the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION. I am very far from... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - Nutrition - 1871 - 750 pages
...cannot possibly be a material substance ; 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 the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these Experiments, except it be MOTION. " I am very far from... | |
 | George Farrer Rodwell - Physical sciences - 1871 - 620 pages
...cannot possibly be a material substance ; 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 these experimente, except it be motion." This was the first and most decisive blow which was aimed... | |
 | Bence Jones - Davy, Humphry, Sir - 1871 - 450 pages
...cannot possibly be a material substance, 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 these experiments except it be MOTION. 'I am far from pretending to know how that particular kind of... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1872 - 628 pages
...limitation cannot possibly bo a material substance; and it appears to ino extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments except it be MOTION." The italies and capitals are Count Rumford's. As Dr. Tyndall... | |
 | Henry Charlton Bastian - 1872 - 526 pages
...cannot possibly be a material substance; 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.' In 1812 also, Sir Humphrey Davy in his first Memoir l brought... | |
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