 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,...  Elements of Physics - Page 140by Fernando Sanford - 1902 - 426 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1877 - 208 pages
...experiments appeared evidently to be inexhaustible.' ' 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... | |
 | William Garnett - 1878 - 236 pages
...experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. " 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... | |
 | Thomas Minchin Goodeve - 1879 - 364 pages
...source of heat generated by friction in these experiments appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. ' It is hardly necessary to add that anything which...bodies can continue to furnish without limitation cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not impossible,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1881 - 572 pages
...inexhaustible. [The italics are Rumford's.] 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 ; and it appears to mo to be extremely difficult, if not quite... | |
 | Gaston Tissandier - 1882 - 830 pages
...hours had measured 170°. Upon this he says: "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... | |
 | 1870 - 488 pages
...experiments to ascertain its origin. These experiments led him to the conclusion that " anything which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance." But this man, to whom must be ascribed the discovery of the... | |
 | James Buchanan Eads - 1884 - 694 pages
...the drill nor the brass was consumed in the operation, he rightly assumed that " anything which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance." Thus the theory of caloric, as taught in the early part of... | |
 | William Garnett - 1884 - 274 pages
...experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible." " 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... | |
 | Richard Wormell - 1886 - 188 pages
...decomposition ; and in a case of necessity the heat thus produced might be used in cooking victuals. 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... | |
 | Archibald Weir - 1886 - 644 pages
...such thing that can with propriety be called caloric? " * He then argued " that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance;" that it is "extremely difficult if not * An Inquiry into... | |
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