 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, to...  Notices of the Proceedings - Page 233by Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1872Full view - About this book
 | 1774 - 628 pages
...materials employed or acted upon, he says — " It appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion,"-)- and... | |
 | 1798 - 618 pages
...furnish with* out limitation t cannot possibly be a material fiibßance ¡ and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and Communicated... | |
 | John Gibson MacVicar - 1830 - 674 pages
...to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated in the manner in which beat was excited, and communicated... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing, capable of being excited, and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated... | |
 | 1861 - 460 pages
...to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to bo extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form...distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and commuuicated in these experiments, except it be motion." The Count does not presume to deliver mere... | |
 | John Pringle Nichol - 1860 - 942 pages
...air, &c., but found no reason to suspect that such was the case. He therefore concluded that it was "extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to...anything capable of being excited, and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." Further,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pages
...Eumford, inquiring into the source of heat developed in the boring of cannon, observed that it was ' extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form...anything capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion.' In 1812,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 500 pages
...Rumford, inquiring into the source of heat developed in the boring of cannon, observed that it was ' extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form...anything capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion.' In 1812,... | |
 | EDWARDL.YOUMANS,M.D. - 1863 - 468 pages
...to furnish ivithout limitation, cannot possibly be & material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.' principle... | |
 | 1864 - 572 pages
...to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance,, and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form...anything capable of being excited, and communicated in the manner that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION." "We shall... | |
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