 | Andrew Jamieson - 1897 - 362 pages
...assumption that heat is a material substance. Davy said — " The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the communication of the laws of motion." Maxwell, in his Theory of Heat, p. 306, says — -"The molecules... | |
 | Andrew Jamieson - 1897 - 658 pages
...assumption that heat is a material substance. Davy said — " The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the communication of the laws of motion." Maxwell, in his Theory of Heat, p. 306, says — " The molecules... | |
 | Thomas Minchin Goodeve - 1898 - 490 pages
...engines. It is expressed in the following sentence : — ' 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.1 HEAT IS PRODUCED BY THE AGITATION OF THE MOLECULES OF BODIES. 33. After the experiments of... | |
 | 1899 - 338 pages
...ice by rubbing two pieces of ice together. In 1812 Davy wrote: 'The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat, then, is motion, and the laws of its communication...same as the laws of the communication of motion.' Professor Tait remarks in this connection : ' If Davy had with this statement taken into account the... | |
 | John Gray McKendrick - 1899 - 344 pages
...ice by rubbing two pieces of ice together. In 1812 Davy wrote: 'The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat, then, is motion, and the laws of its communication...same as the laws of the communication of motion.' Professor Tait remarks in this connection : ' If Davy had with this statement taken into account the... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1899 - 340 pages
...was not till 1812 that he felt sure in asserting that "the immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely...same as the laws of the communication of motion." l Arguing from Rumford's experiments, a conclusive refutation of the caloric theory was given in 1807... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1899 - 352 pages
...was not till 1812 that he felt sure in asserting that " the immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely...same as the laws of the communication of motion." ' Arguing from Rumford's experiments, a conclusive refutation of the caloric theory was given in 1807... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1899 - 342 pages
...was 'not till 1812 that he felt sure in asserting that "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."1 Arguing from Rumford's experiments, a conclusive refutation of the caloric theory was given... | |
 | 1898 - 734 pages
...peculiar motion, probably a vibration of the bodies, tending to separate them." In 1812 Davy said: •The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat,...same as the laws of the communication of motion." This is the "dynamical" or present theory of heat. Other scientists have experimented and agreed that... | |
 | Ernest Howard Griffiths - 1901 - 152 pages
...capacities of bodies for heat." It was not, however, till 1812 that he enunciated this proposition : " The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat then...precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion1 " ; and, on reflection, it seems extraordinary that the publication of the works of Rumford... | |
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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. 
