 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, to...  Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion - Page 74by John Tyndall - 1869 - 541 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard L. Hills - 1993 - 360 pages
...limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited, and communicated in the manner heat was excited, and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion.17 In the following... | |
 | Philip Russell Wallace - 1991 - 602 pages
...continue to furnish without limitation cannot possibly be a material substance, and it appears to me extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form...anything, capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." This idea... | |
 | J. S. Dugdale - 1996 - 218 pages
...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, to form any distinct idea of any thing, capable of being excited, and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated... | |
 | Crosbie Smith - 1998 - 424 pages
...inexhaustible'' and that therefore heat could not be a material substance. He had further inferred that 'it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated... | |
 | Edgar Heilbronner, Foil A. Miller - 2004 - 286 pages
...idea that heat was some sort of matter. He wrote: '. . . it appears to me extremely difficult if not impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments except it be motion'26. ln 1798 Thompson, by now Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford,... | |
 | Carlos I. Calle - 2001 - 682 pages
...the Heat generated by friction, in these experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible . . . [I]t appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not...anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION. Rumford's... | |
 | Gerald James Holton, Stephen G. Brush - 2001 - 604 pages
...continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance, and it appears to me extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form...distinct idea of anything capable of being excited or communicated in the manner in which heat was excited and communicated in the experiments, except... | |
 | Harold H. Schobert - 2002 - 672 pages
...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, to form any distinct idea of any thing, capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated... | |
 | Malcolm S. Longair - 2003 - 592 pages
...system of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation cannot possibly be a material substance; it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not...and communicated in those experiments, except it be MOTION.2 The summit of Rumford's achievement was the first determination of the mechanical equivalent... | |
 | Len Fisher - 2003 - 282 pages
...insulated body . . . can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if...anything, capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner that Heat was excited and communicated in these Experiments, except it be MOTION. Rumford's... | |
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