 | Alexander Wood - 1925 - 118 pages
...ought most certainly rather to hide than to discover." He sums up his reasoning in these words : " In reasoning on this subject, we must not forget to...inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot... | |
 | John William Navin Sullivan - 1928 - 266 pages
...anything that can with propriety be called caloric ? " In reasoning on this subject we must not forget that most remarkable circumstance, that the source...inexhaustible. " It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation cannot... | |
 | 1928 - 430 pages
...been the case is evident. . . . And, in reasoning on this subject. we must not forget to consider tha: most remarkable circumstance, that the source of the...inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body, o: system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation,... | |
 | I.F. Goldstein, M. Goldstein - 1984 - 428 pages
...from, the same body; and, secondly, because there was no chemical decomposition taken place. . . . And, in reasoning on this subject, we must not forget to...consider that most remarkable circumstance, that the course of the Heat generated by friction, in these experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible.... | |
 | Richard W. Miller - 1987 - 632 pages
..."caloric," not just introduce such descriptions as premises. In his crucial memoir, Rumford said, And in reasoning on this subject, we must not forget to consider that the most remarkable circumstance, that the source of the Heat generated by friction, in these Experiments,... | |
 | Philip Russell Wallace - 1991 - 602 pages
...the process appeared to produce inexhaustible quantities of heat. This led him to argue as follows: "In reasoning on this subject, we must not forget...inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body can continue to furnish without limitation cannot possibly be a material... | |
 | Crosbie Smith - 1998 - 424 pages
...Rumford's 'An Enquiry into the Source of Heat which is Excited by Friction' had as its central claims that 'the source of the heat generated by friction,...experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible'' and that therefore heat could not be a material substance. He had further inferred that 'it appears... | |
 | Carlos I. Calle - 2001 - 682 pages
...entitled "An Inquiry Concerning the Source of Heat Which is Excited By Friction," Rumford wrote: And, in reasoning on this subject, we must not forget to...appeared evidently to be inexhaustible . . . [I]t appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything... | |
 | Malcolm S. Longair - 2003 - 592 pages
...reasoning on this subject, we must not forget that most remarkable circumstance, that the source of heat generated by friction in these experiments appeared...inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add. that anything which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation cannot... | |
 | 152 pages
...of work would raise one pound of water through 1° F. '. His final argument was as follows : — " In reasoning on this subject we must not forget to...that most remarkable circumstance, that the source of heat generated by friction in these experiments appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. " It is hardly... | |
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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,... 
