... might be used in cooking victuals. But no circumstances could be imagined in which this method of procuring heat would be advantageous, for more heat might be obtained by using the fodder necessary for the support of a horse as fuel. Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion - Page 73by John Tyndall - 1869 - 541 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pages
...and, in a case of necessity, this heat might be used in cooking victuals. But no circumstances could be imagined in which this method of procuring heat...of animals was derived from the food ; no creation oj force taking place in the animal body.] ' By meditating on the results of all these experiments... | |
| Henry Watts - 1865 - 1110 pages
...circumstances can be imagined, in which this method of procuring heat would not be disadvantageous ; for more heat might be obtained by using the fodder, necessary for the support of a horse, as fuel." After bringing forward arguments and direct experiments to prove that the evolution of heat cannot... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 500 pages
...cooking victuals. But no circumstances could be imagined in which this method of producing heat could be advantageous, for more heat might be obtained by using the fodder necessary for the support of the horse, as fuel. "By meditating on the results of all these experiments, we are naturally brought... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 512 pages
...no circumstances could be imagined in which this method of producing heat could be advan- . tageous, for more heat might be obtained by using the fodder necessary for the support of«the horse, as fuel. "By meditating on the results of all these experiments, we are naturally brought... | |
| John Tyndall - 1866 - 492 pages
...and, in a case of necessity this heat might be used in cooking victuals. But no circumstances could be imagined in which this method of procuring heat...Rumford saw clearly that the force of animals was demil '- D° Creatl°n °ff°ree taldng Place k the ani' By meditating on the results of all these... | |
| Alfred Marshall Mayer - 1868 - 140 pages
...and, in case of necessity, this heat might bo used in cooking victuals. But no circumstances could be imagined in which this method of procuring heat...fodder, necessary for the support of a horse, as fuel. * * * * * «it is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body or system of bodies... | |
| John Tyndall - 1868 - 560 pages
...and, in a case of necessity, this heat might be used in cooking victuals. But no circumstances could be imagined in which this method of procuring heat...advantageous ; for more heat might be obtained by using the (odder necessary for the support of a horse as fuel.' [This is an extremely significant passage, intimating... | |
| Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1870 - 608 pages
...circumstances can be imagined in which this method of procuring Heat would not be disadvantageous; for more Heat might be obtained by using the fodder necessary for the support of a horse as fuel. As soon as the last-mentioned experiment (No. 3) was finished, the water in the wooden box was let... | |
| Bence Jones - 1871 - 486 pages
...be imagined in which this method of procuring heat would not be disadvantageous ; for more heat may be obtained by using the fodder necessary for the support of a horse as fuel.' He concludes thus : 'Anything which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to furnish... | |
| John Tyndall - 1873 - 582 pages
...and, in a case of necessity, this heat might be used in cooking victuals. But no circumstances could be imagined in which this method of procuring heat...creation of force taking place in the animal body.] " By meditating on the results of all these experiments, we are naturally brought to that great question... | |
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