 Is not the heat of the warm room conveyed through the vacuum by the vibrations of a much subtiler medium than air, which, after the air was drawn out remained in the vacuum?  The Theory of Light - Page 19by Thomas Preston - 1890 - 574 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Felix O'Gallagher - 1785 - 420 pages
...through bodies, efcape the fagacity of Sir Ifaac Newton, (See 18 Query.) ' Is not, faid he, the heat of a warm ' room conveyed through the vacuum by the * vibrations of a much fubtiler medium than * air ? And is not this medium the fame with ' that medium by which light is refracted... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1802 - 752 pages
...latir.g principle, feem lo argue fuch variety." (Birch. Hift. of RS Vol. III. p. 249. Dec. 1675.) " Is not the heat (of the warm room) conveyed through the vacuum by the vibrations of a much fubtiter medium than " a'r? And is not this medium the farae with that medium by " which light is refracied... | |
 | 1809 - 530 pages
...warm ahnoft as foon as a thermometer not in vacua. ' Is not the heat, therefore, ' faid he, ' of a warm room conveyed through the vacuum by the vibrations of a much Subtler medium than air, which, after the air was drawn out, remained in the vacuum ? ' Again, he fays,... | |
 | Samuel Vince - 1806 - 72 pages
...warm almost as soon as a thermometer which is not in vacuo. Is not the heat of a warm room therefore conveyed through the vacuum by the vibrations of a much subtiler medium than air, which, after the air was drawn out, remained in the vacuum ?" (Quœry 18). Again, " Doth not the refraction... | |
 | 1809 - 530 pages
...grow warm almoft as foon as a thermometer not in vacuo. ' Is not the heat, therefore,' faid he, * of a warm room conveyed through the vacuum by the vibrations of a much fubtler medium than air, which, after the air was drawn out, reimained in the vacuum ?' Again, he fays,... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 418 pages
...theory of light, or of a luminiferous ether pervading the universe, rare and elastic in a high degree. " Is not the heat (of the warm room) conveyed through...medium the same with that medium by which light is reflected and refracted, and by whose vibrations light communicates heat to bodies, and is put into... | |
 | George G. Carey - 1825 - 274 pages
...the electric and magnetic effluvia, and gravitating principle, seem to argue such variety, " Is uot the heat (of the warm room) conveyed through the vacuum...not this medium the same with that medium by which it is refracted and reflected, and by whose vibrations light communicates heat to bodies, and is put... | |
 | 1833 - 754 pages
...the cold place, the thermometer in vacuo will grow cold, almost as soon as the other thermometer." " Is not the heat of the warm room conveyed through...the vibrations of a much subtiler medium than air, which, after the air was drawn out, remained in the vacuum ? and is not this medium the same with that... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pages
...quotation from " Newton's Optics" contains some of that great philosopher's opinions on the subject. — "Is not the heat of the warm room conveyed through...medium the same with that medium by which light is reflected and refracted, and by whose vibrations light communicates heat to bodies, and is put into... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 604 pages
...into the cold place, the thermometer in vacuo will grow cold almost as soon as the other thermometer. Is not the heat of the warm room conveyed through...the vibrations of a much subtiler medium than air, which, after the air was drawn out, remained in the vacuum ? And is not this medium the same with that... | |
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