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
| GEORGE FOWNES, F.R.S. - 1869 - 876 pages
...Hence Davy * drew the conclusion that, "The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion." The mechanical, or dynamical theory, which regarded heat as consisting... | |
| George Fownes - 1870 - 894 pages
...Hence Davy* drew the conclusion that, "The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion." The mechanical, or dynamical theory, which regarded heat as consisting... | |
| Henry Watts - 1871 - 1128 pages
...himself in very similar terms: — "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 communicat ion of motion." (Elements tif Chi-mical Philosophy, London, 1812, pp. 94, 95.) Similar... | |
| Peter Guthrie Tait - 1876 - 420 pages
...from them ; and then he stated in a distinct form the important propositions that heat is motion, and that the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of communication of motion. Then I showed you that Se"guin, although he was altogether wrong in his a... | |
| Peter Guthrie Tait - 1876 - 396 pages
...enounces this proposition : — ' 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.' Now, we see at a glance to what an immense extent the science had been... | |
| George Fownes - 1877 - 588 pages
...Hence Davy* drew the conclusion that, "the immediate cause of the phenomena of heat is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion." Heat was compared by these philosophers to a material substance, in order... | |
| Robert Henry Thurston - 1878 - 518 pages
...real nature of heat, saying : " 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." The basis of this opinion was the same that had previously been noted... | |
| Thomas Minchin Goodeve - 1879 - 364 pages
...work. If we accept Davy's belief ' that the immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat is motion, and that the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion,' there should be no hesitation in applying Newton's law that ' action... | |
| John Tyndall - 1881 - 572 pages
...have separated from each other. 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 space by cooling, it... | |
| 1883 - 594 pages
...these forces. Sir Humphrey Davy says that the immediate cause of the phenomena of heat is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion. We know that all molecular movement is accompanied by the evolution of... | |
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