 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,...  Heat : a Mode of Motion - Page 48by John Tyndall - 1881 - 591 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Miller - 1803 - 572 pages
...positive substance. Nor is that by any means one of the smallest which Count RUMFORD suggests, viz. " that any thing which any insulated body, or system...can continue to furnish, without, limitation, cannot be a material substance." Yet tjie electric fluid is granted, on all hands, to be a distinct substance... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1803 - 582 pages
...positive substance. Nor is that by any means one of the smallest which Count RUMFORD suggests, viz. " that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish, without {imitation, cannot be a material substance." Yet the electric fluid is granted, on all hands, to be... | |
 | 1822 - 494 pages
...evidently to be inexhaustible, he naturally concluded, that heat could not be matter ; for, says he — " It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which...limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance." " Another method of producing heat is by the taking place of chemical attractions. Every chemical attraction... | |
 | John Gibson MacVicar - 1830 - 674 pages
...source of heat, generated by friction, in these experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which...possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing capable... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...source of the heat generated by friction, in these experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which...possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing, capable... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1852 - 430 pages
...evidently to be inexhaustible, he naturally concluded, that heat could" not be matter: for says he, " It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which...limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance." Another method of producing heat is by the taking place of chemical attractions. Every chemical attraction,... | |
 | 1861 - 460 pages
...observed that the source of it appeared evidently to be inexhaustible, the Count adds that "anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can...possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to bo extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pages
...evidently to be inexhaustible. (The italics are Rumford's.) It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue...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... | |
 | EDWARDL.YOUMANS,M.D. - 1863 - 468 pages
...that the source of the heat generated by friction in these experiments appeared to be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add that any thing which...insulated body or system of bodies can continue to furnish ivithout limitation, cannot possibly be & material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 500 pages
...evidently to be inexhaustible. (The italics are Rumford's.) It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue...furnish without limitation cannot possibly be a material subCOMPRESSION OF BISULPHIDE OF CARBON VAPOUR. 71 stance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult,... | |
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