 | 1774 - 628 pages
...materials employed or acted upon, he says — " It appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything...capable of being excited and communicated in the manner that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion,"-)- and then goes... | |
 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1798 - 550 pages
...appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impoffible, to form any diftiuct idea of any thing, capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in thefe Experiments, except it be MOTION. I am very far from pretending to know how, or by what means,... | |
 | 1799 - 648 pages
...appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impoflible, to form any diftinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in thefe experiments, except it be motion. I am very far from pretending to know how, or by what means... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1799 - 652 pages
...appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impoffible, to form any diilincì idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the heat was ex-- cited and communicated in thefe experiments, except it be motion, I am very far from pretending... | |
 | 1800 - 898 pages
...appears to me со be extremelydifficult, if oot quite impollib e, to form uny diftinet idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in thcfe txpcrimenti, except it be MOTION." " Account of fome Endeavours to afcertain a Standard of Weight... | |
 | 1800 - 664 pages
...appears to me to be txiremeijr difficult, it not quite impoH.be, to form any difiinfl idea of any tiling capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was elcited and communicated in thefe expc* rimtn-s, except it be MOTIOH." " Account of fome Endeavours... | |
 | 1861 - 460 pages
...to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to bo extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form...distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and commuuicated in these experiments, except it be motion." The Count does not presume to deliver mere... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 500 pages
...limitation cannot possibly be a material subCOMPRESSION OF BISULPHIDE OF CARBON VAPOUR. 71 stance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not...anything capable of being excited and communicated in those experiments, except it be MOTION. When the history of the dynamical theory of heat is written,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pages
...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...anything capable of being excited and communicated in those experiments, except it be MOTION. COMPRESSION OP BISULPHIDE OF CARBON VAPOUR. 57 When the history... | |
 | 1864 - 564 pages
...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...capable of being excited, and communicated in the manner that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION." We shall have occasion... | |
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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, to... 
