 | John Tyndall - 1876 - 706 pages
...beyond the pale of doubt by the excellent quantitative researches of Mr. Joule. ' Heat,' says Locke,' is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produce in us that sensation from which we denominate the object hot: -.> what in our sensations is... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1876 - 656 pages
...beyond the pale of doubt by the excellent quantitative researches of Mr. Joule. ' Heat,' says Locke, ' is a very 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 sensations is... | |
 | Thomas Minchin Goodeve - 1879 - 364 pages
...which it is customary to quote the following passage from Locke's writings, where it is stated : — ' Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.' This idea did not find favour with Black, who argued against... | |
 | 1880 - 694 pages
...language which if possible seems still more modern, though he wrote of heat nearly 200 years ago : " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...denominate the object hot; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." Such, then, is the theory which is now received universally... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1881 - 572 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...which produces in us that sensation from whence we demonstrate the object hot : so, what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.'1''... | |
 | Henry Kiddle - 1883 - 296 pages
...in the particles is modified also ; it is not sluggish, but hurried and with violence." Locke said: "Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that emotion from which we denominate the object hot ; so that what in our sensation is heat, in the object... | |
 | James Nasmyth, James Carpenter - 1885 - 374 pages
...motion and nothing else." Locke defines heat as "a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of an object, which produces in us that sensation from whence...denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." Descartes and his followers upheld a similar opinion. Richard... | |
 | 1886 - 552 pages
...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...denominate the object hot ; so 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... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot, Edmund Atkinson - 1886 - 1054 pages
...between heat and motion are '" be met with in the older writers, Bacon for example ; and Locke says, ' Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which pTKiuces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; ••• that what in our... | |
 | W. S. Cassedy - 1888 - 236 pages
...theory of 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...object, which produces in us that sensation, from "which we denominate the object hot; so that what in our "sensation is heat in the object is nothing... | |
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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. 
