| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1875 - 712 pages
...but no memory of the past, and would become again unborn. But the real phenomena of life infinitely transcend human science, and speculation regarding...consideration of which leads to the full explanation of the theory of dissipation of energy. To take one of the simplest cases of the dissipation of energy,... | |
| 1892 - 850 pages
...chemical procesies." their imagined reversal is utterly unprofitable. Far otherwise, however, it is in respect to the reversal of the motions of matter...consideration of which leads to the full explanation of the theory of the dissipation of energy. Carnot's theory of the perfect heat engine is essentially... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1894 - 628 pages
...consequences of their imagined reversal is utterly unprofitable. Far otherwise, however, it is in respect of the reversal of the motions of matter uninfluenced...consideration of which leads to the full explanation of the theory of the dissipation of energy. Carnot's theory of the perfect heat engine is essentially... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1894 - 624 pages
...growing downwards into the seeds from which they sprang. But the real phenomena of life infinitely transcend human science : and speculation regarding...reversal is utterly unprofitable. Far otherwise, however, it is in respect of the reversal of the motions of matter uninfluenced by life, a very elementary consideration... | |
| John Theodore Merz - 1912 - 848 pages
...with no memory of the past, and would become again unborn. But the real phenomena of life infinitely transcend human science ; and speculation regarding...consideration of which leads to the full explanation of ON THE PHYSICAL VIEW OF NATURE. the theory of dissipation of energy." l Whilst Clausius in Germany... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1908 - 658 pages
...of life infinitely transcend human science, and speculation regarding consequences of their ultimate reversal is utterly unprofitable. Far otherwise, however,...consideration of which leads to the full explanation of this theory of dissipation of energy ."t He goes on to explain in graphic terms how an army of Maxwell's... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule - 1911 - 628 pages
...but no memory of the past, and would become again unborn. But the real phenomena of life infinitely transcend human science; and speculation regarding...consideration of which leads to the full explanation of the theory of dissipation of energy. To take one of the simplest cases of the dissipation of energy,... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1911 - 621 pages
...but no memory of the past, and would become again unborn. But the real phenomena of life infinitely transcend human science; and speculation regarding...consideration of which leads to the full explanation of the theory of dissipation of energy. To take one of the simplest cases of the dissipation of energy,... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1912 - 1316 pages
...of life infinitely transcend human science, and speculation regarding consequences of their ultimate reversal is utterly unprofitable. Far otherwise, however,...consideration of which leads to the full explanation of this theory of dissipation of energy." * He then follows up the matter by illustrative applications... | |
| William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - 1917 - 784 pages
...with no memory of the past, and would become again unborn. But the real phenomena of life infinitely transcend human science; and speculation regarding...consideration of which leads to the full explanation of the theory of dissipation of energy. • v MODERN CHEMISTRY. — Main features in nineteenth century... | |
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