 | 1864 - 572 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...anything capable of being excited, and communicated in the manner that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION." "We shall... | |
 | 1865 - 648 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...anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION." This is the first and perhaps the best argument on this point,... | |
 | Henry Watts - 1865 - 1110 pages
...the water, nor by the pieces of metal by which the cylinder and borer were supported, he says: — "It 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." : According... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 500 pages
...system of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material subttancx ; 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 those experiments, except it be MOT10S." V...... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 512 pages
...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 those experiments, except it be MOTION-." No one can read the remarkably able and lucid -paper from which these extracts are taken, without being... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1865 - 490 pages
..."furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a m&tori&l sub~ stance-; and it appears to me to he extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being; 'excited and communicated in those ...expeiiments, except it be MO-TXOK."... | |
 | 1866 - 646 pages
...system of bodies 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 these experiments, except it be MOTION." Precisely to the same effect, Sir Humphrey Davy expresses... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1866 - 492 pages
...Rumford, inquiring into the source of heat developed in the boring of cannon, observed that it was ' 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.' In 1812,... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1866 - 480 pages
...continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to mo to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated in these- experiments, except it be MOTION.' principle... | |
 | Golding Bird, Charles Brooke - 1867 - 894 pages
...noticed the great amount of heat developed by the boring of cannon, he remarked, " It appears to me extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being thus excited and communicated, except it be motion." And it is remarkable... | |
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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... 
