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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... "
Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion: Being a Course of Twelve Lectures ... - Page 71
by John Tyndall - 1865 - 12 pages
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The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, Volumes 29-30

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...
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser, Volume 26

1798 - 618 pages
...bodies, can continue to furnish with* out limitation t cannot possibly be a material fiibßance ¡ and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if...not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and Communicated...
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Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, Volume 2

Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1798 - 550 pages
...fyftem of bodies, can continue to furnifti without limitation, eannot poffibly be a material fubftance i and it 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...
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Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts, Volume 2

William Nicholson - 1799 - 652 pages
...fyflem of bodies can continue to furnifh -without limitation^ cannot poffibly be a material fubftance j and it 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...
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Elements of the economy of nature; or, The principles of physics, chemistry ...

John Gibson MacVicar - 1830 - 674 pages
...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 form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated in the manner in which beat was excited, and communicated...
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Readings in Natural Philosophy: Or, A Popular Display of the Wonders of ...

Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...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 form any distinct idea of any thing, capable of being excited, and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated...
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The Mechanics' Magazine and Journal of Engineering, Agricultural ..., Volume 75

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...
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A Cyclopædia of the Physical Sciences: Comprising Acoustics, Astronomy ...

John Pringle Nichol - 1860 - 942 pages
...air, &c., but found no reason to suspect that such was the case. He therefore concluded that it was "extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to...anything capable of being excited, and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." Further,...
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Heat considered as a mode of motion: 12 lects

John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pages
...Eumford, inquiring into the source of heat developed in the boring of cannon, observed that it was ' extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form...anything capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion.' In 1812,...
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CHEMISTRY

EDWARDL.YOUMANS,M.D. - 1863 - 468 pages
...system of bodies can continue to furnish ivithout limitation, cannot possibly be & material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if...not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.' principle...
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