 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1877 - 912 pages
...called an axiom) the following note : "But if this be denied for all temperatures, it would have to he admitted that a self-acting machine might be set to...sea, or, in reality, from the whole material world." Yet we have seen that such an engine might, by some intelligence, mighty, but not necessarily infinite,... | |
 | Balfour Stewart - 1875 - 270 pages
...See Tait, Phil. May., 1872, I. 338, 516 ; II. 240. But he appends the following guarded note : — " If this axiom be denied for all temperatures, it would...sea, or, in reality, from the whole material world." The full importance of this will appear presently. To those who can accept Thomson's axiom with the... | |
 | Balfour Stewart, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1875 - 228 pages
...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects." But he appends the following guarded note : " If this axiom be denied for all temperatures, it would...sea, or, in reality, from the whole material world." The full importance of this will appear presently. To those who can accept Thomson's axiom with the... | |
 | Balfour Stewart - 1875 - 244 pages
...SeeTait, Phil. Mag., 1872, I. 338, 516 ; II. 240. But he appends the following guarded note : — " If this axiom be denied for all temperatures, it would...sea, or, in reality, from the whole material world." The full importance of this will appear presently. To those who can accept Thomson's axiom with the... | |
 | Balfour Stewart, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1875 - 274 pages
...See Tait, Phil. Mag., 1872, I. 338, 516 ; II. 240. But he appends the following guarded note : — " If this axiom be denied for all temperatures, it would...sea, or, in reality, from the whole material world." The full importance of this will appear presently. To those who can accept Thomson's axiom with the... | |
 | Carl Neumann - 1875 - 264 pages
...sein Priucip leugnen wollte und zwar leugnen wollte für alle Temperaturen, so würde daraus folgen, that a self-acting machine might be set to work and...sea, or, in reality, from the whole material world. % 31. Ableitung des Carnot'schen Satzes. Es seien gegeben zwei constante Wärmequellen 00, 0t von den... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1878 - 476 pages
...Thomson appends to his proposition (which has been called an axiom) the following note : "But if this be denied for all temperatures, it would have to be...sea, or, in reality, from the whole material world." Yet we have seen that such an engine might, by some intelligence, mighty, but not necessarily infinite,... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1878 - 472 pages
...Thompson appends to his proposition (which has been called an axiom) the following note : "But if this be denied for all temperatures, it would have to be...sea, or, in reality, from the whole material world." Yet we have seen that such an engine might, by some intelligence, mighty, but not necessarily infmite,... | |
 | 1878 - 506 pages
...(which has been called an axiom) the following note : "But if this axiom be denied for all temperature, it would have to be admitted that a self-acting machine...sea, or, in reality, from the whole material world." Yet we have already seen that such an engine might, by some intelligence, mighty, but not necessarily... | |
 | 1892 - 850 pages
...the freezing point of water is lowered by pressure." Two years later -f I gave the negative answer as an axiom in the following terms: "It is impossible,...limited to inanimate matter because not enough was known either from the natural history of plants and animals or from experimental investigations in physiology... | |
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If this axiom be denied for all temperatures, it would have to be admitted that a self-acting machine might be set to work and produce mechanical effect by cooling the sea or earth, with no limit but the total loss of heat from the earth and sea, or,... 
