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" 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 398
by Dionysius Lardner - 1833 - 429 pages
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Cyclopadic Science Simplified

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,...
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Cyclopædic science simplified

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,...
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...Note on M.Ph.Plantamour's Observations by Means of Levels on the Periodic ...

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...
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Scientific Papers: 1887-1892

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...
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The Bases of Modern Science

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...
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Lines Of Light: The Sources Of

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...
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Mathematical Problems in Elasticity

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...
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A Brief History of Light and Those That Lit the Way

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...
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Thomas Young Natural Philosopher 1773-1829

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...
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scientific papers

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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