 Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation, from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing b,ut motion.  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 438by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1865 - 494 pages
...' Heat ' he says, ' is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produce in us that sensation from whence we denominate the...our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.'1 In our last lecture I referred to the experiments of Count Rumford f on the boring of cannon... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1865 - 648 pages
...itself, its essence and quiddity, is motion, and nothing else." Locke expresses the same opinion : " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produce in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1865 - 66 pages
...beyond the pale of doubt by the excellent quantitative researches of Mr. Joule. " Heat," says Locke, " is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produce in us that sensation from which we denominate the object hot : so what in our sensation is... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1865 - 112 pages
...beyond the pale of doubt by the excellent quantitative researches of Mr Joule. "Heat," says Locke, "is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produce in us that sensation from which we denominate the object hot : so what in our sensation is... | |
 | Medicine - 1867 - 592 pages
...motion, heat is generated ; a confirmation of the position taken hy Locke two centuries ago that " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so that what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion," and by Davy in 1812, when... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1866 - 492 pages
...held a view of this kind,* and Locke stated a similar view with singular felicity. ' Heat ' he says, ' is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produce in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Periodicals - 1870 - 560 pages
...namely, into vapor, smoke, or air.' Locke gives a definition almost as felicitous : ' Heat,' says he, ' is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produce in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot; so what in our sensation is... | |
 | Golding Bird, Charles Brooke - Physics - 1867 - 894 pages
...insensible parts of tlie object, which products in ui that sensation from whence we denominate tlte object hot; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object it nothing but motion." 1343. The chief proximate cause of heat is the sun, whose rays convey to us... | |
 | Bernard Cracroft - 1868 - 348 pages
...particles of matter. This view was held by Bacon. Locke, Mr. Tyndall tells us, said, very happily, that " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...sensation is heat in the object is nothing but motion." How brisk, we may illustrate incidentally by the fact that the waves of a ray of red light, for instance,... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1868 - 560 pages
...held a view of this kind,* and Locke stated a similar view with singular felicity. ' Heat,' he says, ' is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion? The experiments of Count Rumford f on the boring of cannon have been already referred to. Now he showed... | |
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