| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1875 - 712 pages
...and would become again unborn. But the real phenomena of life infinitely transcend human science, and speculation regarding consequences of their imagined...dissipation of energy, the conduction of heat through a solid — consider a bar of metal warmer at one end than the other, and left to itself. To avoid all... | |
| 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...which leads to the full explanation of the theory of the dissipation of energy. Carnot's theory of the perfect heat engine is essentially founded on the... | |
| 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...which leads to the full explanation of the theory of the dissipation of energy. Carnot's theory of the perfect heat engine is essentially founded on the... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1894 - 642 pages
...seeds from which they sprang. But the real phenomena of life infinitely transcend human science: and speculation regarding consequences of their imagined...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
...would become again unborn. But the real phenomena of life infinitely transcend human science ; and speculation regarding consequences of their imagined...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... | |
| John Theodore Merz - 1903 - 832 pages
...would become again unborn. But the real phenomena of life infinitely transcend human science ; and speculation regarding consequences of their imagined...explanation of the theory of dissipation of energy." l Whilst Clausins in Germany and Thomson in England were busy reconciling the truths contained in Carnot's... | |
| 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
...and would become again unborn. But the real phenomena of life infinitely transcend human science; and speculation regarding consequences of their imagined...dissipation of energy, the conduction of heat through a solid — consider a bar of metal warmer at one end than the other, and left to itself. To avoid all... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1911 - 621 pages
...and would become again unborn. But the real phenomena of life infinitely transcend human science; and speculation regarding consequences of their imagined...dissipation of energy, the conduction of heat through a solid — consider a bar of metal warmer at one end than the other, and left to itself. To avoid all... | |
| 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... | |
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