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 by the undulations of an elastic medium, which is also concerned in the phenomena of light.... Treatise on Heat - Page 399by Dionysius Lardner - 1833 - 429 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Young - 1845 - 660 pages
...sense of sight, may be supposed to give rise to the least refrangible rays, and to constitute inrisible heat. It is easy to imagine that such vibrations may...is remarkable that the particles of fluids, which if incapable of any material change of temperature from mutual friction. have also very little power... | |
| John Henry Pepper - 1869 - 722 pages
...vacuum by the undulations of an elastic medium, which is also concerned in the phenomena of light. It is easy to imagine that such vibrations may be...consequence of combustion or of any other chemical change." Further on, he snys, "The effect of radiant heat in raising the temperature of a body on which it falls... | |
| John Henry Pepper - 1877 - 764 pages
...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,...consequence of combustion or of any other chemical change." Further on, he say s.'- The effect of radiant heat in raising the temperature of a body on which it... | |
| 1884 - 838 pages
...which is also concerned in the phenomena of light. It is easy to imagine that such vibration may lie excited in the component parts of bodies by percussion,...be restored in consequence of combustion, or of any chemical change. The effect of radiant heat in raising the KITCHENS MADE LIGHT BY MEANS OP CHAPPÜIS'... | |
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