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" 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 but motion. "
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 392
by John Locke - 1813
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Force and Nature: Attraction and Repulsion: the Radical Principles of Energy ...

Charles Frederick Winslow - Force and energy - 1869 - 504 pages
...the object, which produces in us that sensation " from whence we denominate the object hot ; so that what " in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." No definition could be more exactly stated, and no subsequent studies or discoveries have changed the...
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Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion

John Tyndall - Heat - 1870 - 576 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 object hot ; so what in our sensation is /teat, in the object is nothing but motion.' In our last lecture I referred to the experiments of Count...
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A Dictionary of Science: Comprising Astronomy, Chemistry, Dynamics ...

George Farrer Rodwell - Physical sciences - 1871 - 620 pages
...to have fully recognised the theory which considers heat as a motion of matter. " H¿at," he says, " is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so that, what in our sensation is licat, in the object is nothing but motion." Thus far we have spoken...
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Fragments of Science for Unscientific People: A Series of Detached Essays ...

John Tyndall - Religion and science - 1871 - 438 pages
...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 heat in the object is nothing but motion." When the electric current, still feeble, begins to pass through the wire, its first act is to intensify...
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Fragments of Science for Unscientific People: A Series of Detached Essays ...

John Tyndall - Chemistry - 1871 - 436 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 heat...
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Das mechanische Wärmeäquivalent

James Prescott Joule - Heat, Mechanical equivalent of - 1872 - 148 pages
...haben werden. Ueber das mechanische Aequiva1ent der Wärme. Philosophical Transaction, 1850, p. 61 ff. „Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible...sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." Locke. „Wärme ist eine sehr lebhafte Bewegung der unwahrnehmbar kleinen Theile eines Gegenstandes,...
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The Beginnings of Life: Being Some Account of the Nature, Modes of ..., Volume 1

Henry Charlton Bastian - Life - 1872 - 578 pages
...of bodies V Locke, also, shortly afterwards, expressed himself in much the same terms. He said: — 'Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible...in us that sensation from whence we denominate the subject hot; so that what in our sensation is heat^ in the object is nothing but motion.' But it was...
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The Beginnings of life v.1, Volume 1

Henry Charlton Bastian - 1872 - 526 pages
...bodies V Locke, also, shortly afterwards, expressed himself in much the same terms. He said : — ' Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...in us that sensation from whence we denominate the subject hot; so that what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.' But it was...
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Das mechanische Wärmeäquivalent: gesammelte Abhandlungen

James Prescott Joule - Heat, Mechanical equivalent of - 1872 - 152 pages
...the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that Sensation, i'rom whence \ve <lenominate the object hot ; so what in our Sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but moüon." Locke. „Wanne ist eine sehr lebhafte Bewegung der unwahrnehmbar kleinen Theile eines Gegenstandes,...
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A Dictionary of Science: Comprising Astronomy, Chemistry, Dynamics ...

George Farrer Rodwell - Physical sciences - 1873 - 752 pages
...have fully recognized the theory which considers heat as a motion of matter. " Heat," he says, " ia a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of...sensation from whence we denominate the object hot; so that, what in our sensation is heat, in the object is uotling but motion." Thus far we have spoken...
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