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" Are not gross Bodies and Light convertible into one another, and may not bodies receive much of their Activity from the Particles of Light which enter their Composition? "
The Correlation and Conservation of Forces: A Series of Expositions, by Prof ... - Page 137
by Edward Livingston Youmans - 1870 - 438 pages
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Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and ...

Isaac Newton - 1730 - 432 pages
...Queftions. 9tytft. 30. Are not grofs Bodies and Light convertible into one another, and may not.Bodies receive much of their Activity from the Particles of Light which enter their Compofition? For all fix'd Bodies being heated emit Light fo long as they continue furficiently hpt,...
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Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and ...

Isaac Newton - 1730 - 403 pages
...undcrftood by what was faid in the i8th, loth, and aoth Que/» . ^**«— itions. %£/?. 30. Are not grofs Bodies and Light convertible. into one another, and-...Activity from the Particles of Light which enter their Com pofition? For all • fix'd Bodies being heated emit Light to long as * * they continue fufficiently...
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Philosophical Conversations: Or, A New System of Physics, by Way ..., Volume 1

Regnault (Père, Noël) - 1731 - 498 pages
...from its Weight of Nitre, and then mixed with twice its Weight of Oil of Anifeeds, &e. " Are not grofs Bodies and light convertible into one another, and may not Bodies receive much of their Aftivity from the Particles of Light, which enter their Compolition? For all fixed Bodies being heated,...
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A Dictionary of Chemistry: Containing the Theory and Practice of ..., Volume 3

Pierre Joseph Macquer - 1777 - 702 pages
...combining, it fcems particularly adapted to form elaftic fluids. '* " Are not^'ir/J India anJ [:*!>t convertible into one another, •* and may not bodies receive much of their a<3ivity from the par•• ticlcs ot'light which enter their coinpofition ?" Nruion'i Oftint fluids:...
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Report of the Annual Meeting, Issue 4

British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1835 - 766 pages
...referred. This appears to have been the opinion of Newton. " Are not gross bodies and light," says he, " convertible into one another, and may not bodies receive...the particles of light which enter their composition ? For all fixed bodies being heated emit light, so long as they continue sufficiently hot, and light...
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The Genuine Works of Hippocrates, Volume 1

Hippocrates - 1849 - 496 pages
...one another. He says, " Are not gross bodies and light (or ether) convertible into one another?—and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition ? The changing of bodies into light and of light into bodies is very agreeable...
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Chambers's papers for the people, Parts 7-12

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 784 pages
...similar idea, and he asks, ' whether gross bodies and light are not convertible into one another 'I and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition ? For all fixed substances, being heated, emit light so long as they remain...
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Researches on Light in Its Chemical Relations: Embracing a Consideration of ...

Robert Hunt - 1854 - 466 pages
...every effort of his master mind. Sir Isaac Newton demands, whether " gross bodies and Light are not convertible into one another ; and may not bodies...their activity from the particles of Light which enter into their composition ? For all fixed bodies, being * French Memoirs, from 1 700 to 1 705. NEWTON...
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Elements of the economy of nature; or, The principles of physics, chemistry ...

John Gibson MacVicar - 1856 - 126 pages
...again, more specially in another place, thi.s greatest of physicists puts the interesting query, " Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one...their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition ?" " The changing of light into bodies, and of bodies into light, is very conformable...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volumes 3-4

1857 - 588 pages
...answer the query which Sir Isaac Newton has appended to his " Optics," expressed in these words : — "Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one...their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition ? . . . The changing of light into bodies, and of bodies into light, is very...
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