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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. "
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution - Page 294
by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1869
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The American Library of Art, Literature and Song, Volume 2

1886 - 552 pages
...remarkable utterance which of late years has been most widely circulated is the following. " Heat," says Locke, " 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...
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Die Lehre von der Energie: historisch-kritisch Entwickelt, nebst beiträgen ...

Georg Ferdinand Helm - 1887 - 120 pages
...Wärmetheorie) fügt Anaxagoras , Empedokles und Aristoteles bei; Joule konnte den Locke'schen Satz zitieren: what in our Sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion; Rodwell (Phil. mag. [4] 24) hob Bacos Anrechte hervor und Bohn (Phil, mag. [4] 28 und Ann. de chim....
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"Evolution of Sound" Evolved: A Review of the Article Entitled "The Nature ...

Marcellus John Thompson - 1887 - 232 pages
...are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion." Locke, later on,* insists that " what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." And John Tyndall, in his " Heat as a Mode of Motion " (a work which has placed him in the front rank...
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Is the Copernican System of Astronomy True?

W. S. Cassedy - 1888 - 236 pages
...heat." That motion may be a cause of heat, was the opinion of the celebrated Locke He says : "Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts "of the object, which produces in us that sensation, from "which we denominate the object hot; so that what in our "sensation...
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General physiology of the tissues

John Gray McKendrick - 1888 - 560 pages
...of heat. So long ago as the beginning of the 18th century Locke wrote the following passage : "Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from which we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is...
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The Chemical Trade Journal, Volume 5

1889 - 612 pages
...itself, its essence and quiddity, is motion, and nothing else ; ' and Locke tells us emphatically that 'what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." Still, these expressions, though far ahead of their day, and indicating great acuteness, were, after...
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Heat a Mode of Motion

John Tyndall - 1890 - 644 pages
...remarkable utterance which of late years has been most widely circulated is the following : ' Heat,' says Locke, ' 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...
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Heat a Mode of Motion

John Tyndall - 1890 - 666 pages
...parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; BO what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion. This appears by the way heat is produced ; for we see that the rubbing of a brass nail upon a board...
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The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Volume 7

1890 - 986 pages
...of an object which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot; so that what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." About the same Heat. Heath. time, Huygens, in his Tractatus de Lumine, brought forward the undulatory...
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Gas and Petroleum Engines: A Practical Treatise on the Internal Combustion ...

William Robinson (M.E.) - 1890 - 658 pages
...facts like these Lord Bacon, in the Novum Organum, imagined that "heat was motion." John Locke says : " What in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." The early experimental school, under Gilbert, of Colchester, in 1570, regarded heat as a material substance...
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