 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,...  Elements of Physics - Page 140by Fernando Sanford - 1902 - 426 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Miller - 1803 - 572 pages
...that by any means one of the smallest which Count RUMFORD suggests, viz. " that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish, without, limitation, cannot be a material substance." Yet tjie electric fluid is granted, on all hands, to be a distinct... | |
 | 1822 - 494 pages
...heat could not be matter ; for, says he — " It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance." " Another method of producing heat is by the taking place... | |
 | John Gibson MacVicar - 1830 - 674 pages
...experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing 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... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing 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... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1852 - 430 pages
...that heat could" not be matter: for says he, " It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance." Another method of producing heat is by the taking place of... | |
 | 1861 - 460 pages
...that the source of it appeared evidently to be inexhaustible, the Count adds 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 bo extremely difficult, if not quite... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 500 pages
...inexhaustible. (The italics are Rumford's.) 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 subCOMPRESSION OF BISULPHIDE OF CARBON VAPOUR. 71 stance; and it appears... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pages
...inexhaustible. (The italics are Rumford's.) 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... | |
 | 1864 - 572 pages
...experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible." " 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... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1865 - 490 pages
...-mexlicmstiMe. (The italics are Kumford's.) It- is- hardly 'necessary to add,' that any thing which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue 'to "furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a m&tori&l sub~ stance-; and it appears to me to he extremely difficult, if not... | |
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