 The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat then is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same, as the laws of the communication of motion.  Treatise on Heat - Page 393by Dionysius Lardner - 1833 - 429 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1833 - 754 pages
...must have separated from each other. The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat then is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same, as the laws of the communication of motion." Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller volume by cooling, it... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1833 - 168 pages
...that its parts must have separated from each other. The immediate cause, then, of heat, is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion." 111. " Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller volume by cooling,... | |
 | John Campbell Colquhoun - 1836 - 454 pages
...communicated motion. Now, Sir Humphrey Davy argues, that the immediate cause of heat is motion ; and " that the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of motion." This opinion of Sir Humphrey is entirely coincident with that to be maintained in this paper ; and... | |
 | William Mullinger Higgins - 1836 - 514 pages
...chymistry, we may give in his own words : " The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat is motion : and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion. Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller volume by cooling, it is... | |
 | 1836 - 422 pages
...chymistry, we may give in his own words : " The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat is motion : and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion. Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller volume by cooling, it is... | |
 | Thomas Webster - 1837 - 512 pages
...this most interesting subject. ' The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat then is motion ; and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion. Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller volume by cooling, it is... | |
 | Robert Otway - 1837 - 284 pages
...temperature at which it boils. The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat, says Dr. URE, is motion ; and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion. And as all matter may be made to fill a smaller volume by cooling, it... | |
 | 1841 - 444 pages
...have separated from each other. The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat, then, is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion. Since all matter may be made to rill a smaller votnnie by cooling, it... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1843 - 490 pages
...doctrine, Sir H. Davy observes, in his Chemical Philosophy, that " the cause of heat is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion." But in the Treatise on Life and Death, as also in his Natural History,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 876 pages
...pot.h«i; abstruse subject. " The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat, then, is motion ; and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion. Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller volume by cooling, it is... | |
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