 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
 | Gerald James Holton, Stephen G. Brush - 2001 - 604 pages
...these experiments appears 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 extremely difficult, if not quite impossible,... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 2002 - 278 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 continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance: and it appears to me to be extremely dillicult. if not quite... | |
 | Julian Seymour Schwinger - 2002 - 274 pages
...at a steady rate; the supply of heat seemed inexhaustible. He understood "that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a BOX 3-1 Benjamin Thomson, Count Rumford Born in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the... | |
 | Harold H. Schobert - 2002 - 672 pages
...where was the heat coming from, if not caloric leaking out of the cannon barrel? 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... | |
 | Malcolm S. Longair - 2003 - 592 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; it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible,... | |
 | John H. Lienhard - 2006 - 288 pages
...form of heat. Finally, as a consequence of his experiments, Rumford was able to state quite plainly: Anything which an 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... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - 790 pages
...capacity for holding caloric in the metal. As Rumford argued in a paper of 1798, 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... | |
 | 1864 - 804 pages
...these experiments appeared 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... | |
 | Henry Winram Dickinson - 1939 - 304 pages
...heat was a mode of motion of the molecules of a substance. His conclusion was: "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... | |
 | 1864 - 810 pages
...these experiments appeared 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... | |
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