 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
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1885 - 1240 pages
...the heat generated in boring a brass gun: ' 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,' and Davy's still... | |
 | Archibald Weir - Europe - 1886 - 644 pages
...of heat which is excited by Friction ; Essays (1800), II., 491. 448 DYNAMICAL THEORY OF HEAT. 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." Rumford also endeavoured... | |
 | Joseph Smith Van Dyke - Evolution - 1886 - 494 pages
...limitation cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything...capable of being excited and communicated in the manner that heat is excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion . . . This Joule has... | |
 | Richard Wormell - Heat - 1886 - 188 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.' you/e's Experiments.—On... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 552 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." With regard to the illustration which compared heat to water... | |
 | Marcellus John Thompson - Evolution - 1887 - 232 pages
...motion and nothing else." Rumford said, in 1789, " It appears to me extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated as heat is, except motion." Davy defines heat as "a peculiar motion," and in his " Chemical Philosophy"... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 966 pages
...e»nnot possibly be a material substance ; nhd 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 that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." About the same time... | |
 | John Gray McKendrick - Histology - 1888 - 560 pages
...producing the phenomena of heat. ' It appears to me,' he remarks, ' 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.' " Sir Humphry Davy,... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - Steam-boilers - 1888 - 710 pages
...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 estimates the heat *This idea was not by any means original with Rumford. Bacon seems to have... | |
 | Andrew Jamieson - Steam - 1889 - 532 pages
...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...1799, in his first published work, entitled — An Essay on Heat, Light, and Combinations of Light, was regarded at the time as a complete refutation... | |
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