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" ... currents, would either of them be sufficient to demonstrate the immateriality of heat; and would so afford, if required, a perfect confirmation of Sir Humphry Davy's views. 4. Considering it as thus established, that heat is not a substance, but a... "
On Molecular and Microscopic Science - Page 29
by Mary Somerville - 1869 - 432 pages
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics: Memoirs by Carnot, Clausius, and Thomson

Sadi Carnot, Rudolf Clausius - 1899 - 178 pages
...established, that heat is not a substance, but a dynamical form of mechanical effect, we perceive that there must be an equivalence between mechanical work and heat, as between cause and effect. The first published statement of this principle appears to be in Mayer's Bemerkungen ilber die Kriifte...
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

1852 - 590 pages
...established, that heat is not a substance, but a dynamical form of mechanical effect, we perceive that there must be an equivalence between mechanical work and heat, as between cause and effect. The first published statement of this principle appears to be in Mayer's Bemerkungen uber die Krdfte...
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume 20

Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1853 - 748 pages
...established, that heat is not a substance, but a dynamical form of mechanical effect, we perceive that there must be an equivalence between mechanical work and heat, as between cause and effect. The first published statement of this principle appears to be in MAYER'S " Bemerkungen liber die Kriifte...
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

1852 - 1172 pages
...established, that heat is not a substance, but a dynamical form of mechanical effect, we perceive that there must be an equivalence between mechanical work and heat, as between cause and effect. The first published statement of this principle appears to be in Mayer's Bemerkungen uber die Krdfte...
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The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain

Crosbie Smith - 1998 - 424 pages
...'Considering it as thus established [by Davy, Mayer and Joule], that heat is not a substance, we perceive that there must be an equivalence between mechanical work and heat, as between cause and effect'.36 Such remarkable convolutions bear witness to the enormous behind-the-scenes difficulties...
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