 | Arthur Turnbull - 1919 - 360 pages
...not commit himself to any theory of " energy." He simply concluded that " anything which any isolated body or system of bodies can continue to furnish without...limitation cannot possibly be a material substance." It was a spirit within things. The famous experiment of Humphry Davy (1778-1829) followed in 1798.... | |
 | Richard Glazebrook - 1922 - 1090 pages
...evidently to be i'nezA<iH.«»*tik" It is hardly necessary to add, that anvthing which any insvlaltd body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish...limitation cannot possibly be a material substance. It appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything... | |
 | Richard Glazebrook - 1922 - 1094 pages
...evidently to l>o infftiftu-itiMf, " It is Imrdly necessary to add, that anything which any inxtilatfd body, or .system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation cannot possibly be a intilfrial xubattincf. It appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form... | |
 | Alexander Wood - 1925 - 118 pages
...friction in these experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body or system of...limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance. It appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything... | |
 | 1864 - 804 pages
...generated by friction in these experiments appeared to be жгЛямоУ«. It is hardly necessary te add, that anything which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to be а дмиУтии* ¿шавяпсе; and it i me to be extremely difficult, if ait ernte impossible,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1901 - 926 pages
...these ghosts were destined to be laid. When Rumford declared, in his interpretation of his experiments, "Anything which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation can not possibly be a material substance," the fate of the supposed imponderable fluid heat was sealed;... | |
 | Richard W. Miller - 1987 - 632 pages
...friction, in these Experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body, or system...limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance** Here, Rumford takes conservation to be part of the stereotype of "caloric" (and of "material substance").... | |
 | Richard L. Hills - 1993 - 360 pages
...Count Rumford's experiment boring the 'head' of a casting for a cannon. (Jamieson, Elementary Manual.) to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be...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... | |
 | J. S. Dugdale - 1996 - 220 pages
...experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can...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... | |
 | Lawrence S. Lerner - 1996 - 640 pages
...inexhaustible. . . . [Anything which any insuliiu-J body . . . can continue to furnish without IlltlltiltlOll cannot possibly be a material substance: and it appears to me to be ... impossible to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited ... in [this) manner... | |
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It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance... 
