If heat is not a substance, it must be a quality ; and this quality can only be motion. It was Newton's opinion that heat consists in a minute vibratory motion of the particles of bodies, and that this motion is communicated through an apparent vacuum... Treatise on Heat - Page 398by Dionysius Lardner - 1833 - 429 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Henry Pepper - 1869 - 722 pages
...consists in a minute vibratory motion of the particles of bodies, and that this motion is communicated through an apparent vacuum by the undulations of an...which is also concerned in the phenomena of light. It is easy to imagine that such vibrations may be excited in the component parts of bodies by percussion,... | |
| John Henry Pepper - 1877 - 764 pages
...consists in a minute vibratory motion of the particles of bodies, and that this motion is communicated through an apparent vacuum by the undulations of an...which is also concerned in the phenomena of light. It is easy to imagine that such vibrations maybe excited in the component parts of bodies by percussion,... | |
| Charles Davison - 1889 - 608 pages
...consists in a minute vibratory motion of the particles of bodies, and that this motion is communicated through an apparent vacuum by the undulations of an...arguments which have been lately advanced in favour of the nndulatory theory of light be deemed valid, there will be still stronger reasons for admitting this... | |
| John William Strutt Baron Rayleigh - 1902 - 666 pages
...consists in a minute vibratory motion of the particles of bodies, and that this motion is communicated through an apparent vacuum by the undulations of an...have been lately advanced in favour of the undulatory theory of light be deemed valid, there will be still stronger reasons for admitting this doctrine respecting... | |
| John William Navin Sullivan - 1928 - 266 pages
...consists in a minute vibratory motion of the particles of bodies, and that this motion is communicated through an apparent vacuum by the undulations of an...arguments which have been lately advanced in favour of the undulating nature of light be deemed valid, there will be still stronger reasons for admitting this... | |
| John Charles Drury Brand - 1995 - 284 pages
...opinion that heat consists of a minute vibratory motion of the particles of bodies ... communicated through an apparent vacuum by the undulations of an...If the arguments which have been lately advanced in favor of the undulatory theory of light be deemed valid, there will be still stronger reasons for submitting... | |
| Remigio Russo - 1996 - 340 pages
...consists in a minute vibratory motion of the particles of bodies and that this motion is communicated through an apparent vacuum by the undulations of an...phenomena of light. If the arguments which have been advanced in favour of the undulatory theory of light be deemed valid, there would be still stronger... | |
| Richard J. Weiss - 1996 - 200 pages
...consists in a minute vibratory motion of the particles of bodies and that this motion is communicated through an apparent vacuum by the undulations of an...phenomena of light. If the arguments which have been advanced in favour of the undulatory theory of light be deemed valid, there would be still stronger... | |
| Alexander Wood - 1983 - 392 pages
...consists in a minute vibratory motion of the particles of bodies and that this motion is communicated through an apparent vacuum by the undulations of an...have been lately advanced in favour of the undulatory theory of light be deemed valid, there will be still stronger reasons for admitting this doctrine respecting... | |
| 624 pages
...consists in a minute vibratory motion of the particles of bodies, and that this motion is communicated through an apparent vacuum by the undulations of an...have been lately advanced in favour of the undulatory theory of light be deemed valid, there will be still stronger reasons for admitting this doctrine respecting... | |
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