 | John Tyndall - 1865 - 66 pages
...brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produce in us that sensation from which we denominate the object hot : so what in our sensation is heat in the object is nothing but motion.'1'' When the electric current, still feeble, begins to pass through the wire, its first act... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1866 - 492 pages
...numerous contributors to that great step in physical science. Two centuries ago, Locke said that ' Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so that what in our sensation... | |
 | 1867 - 592 pages
...motion, heat is generated ; a confirmation of the position taken hy Locke two centuries ago that " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so that what in our sensation... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1870 - 560 pages
...namely, into vapor, smoke, or air.' Locke gives a definition almost as felicitous : ' Heat,' says he, ' is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...the object, which produce in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but... | |
 | Golding Bird, Charles Brooke - 1867 - 894 pages
...insensible parts of tlie object, which products in ui that sensation from whence we denominate tlte object hot; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object it nothing but motion." 1343. The chief proximate cause of heat is the sun, whose rays convey to us... | |
 | Alfred Marshall Mayer - 1868 - 140 pages
...the particles is modified also; it is not sluggish, but hurried and with violence." Locke — "Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...the object, which produce in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but... | |
 | Bernard Cracroft - 1868 - 348 pages
...of matter. This view was held by Bacon. Locke, Mr. Tyndall tells us, said, very happily, that " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 560 pages
...held a view of this kind,* and Locke stated a similar view with singular felicity. ' Heat,' he says, ' is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot : so what in our sensation is... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - 1868 - 886 pages
...heat and motion m to be met with in the older writers, Bacon for example ; and Locke «T»— ' Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, rhich produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hoi ; ao that what in our... | |
 | 1869 - 486 pages
...placed beyond the pale of doubt by the excellent quantitative researches of Mr. Jonle. "Heat," says Locke, " is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produce in ns that sensation from which we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heal in the... | |
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Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion. 
