| H. Charlton Bastian - 1872 - 524 pages
...bodies 1.' Locke, also, shortly afterwards, expressed himself in much the same terms. He said : — ' Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the subject hot 5 so that what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing... | |
| George Farrer Rodwell - 1873 - 752 pages
...have fully recognized the theory which considers heat as a motion of matter. " Heat," he says, " ia a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of...the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot; so that, what in our sensation is heat, in the object is uotling... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans - 1874 - 498 pages
...by the philosopher LOCEE, who said, ' Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of an object which produces in us that sensation from which...we denominate the object hot, so that what in our sensations is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.' 252. Universality of Motion.— The later... | |
| 1874 - 810 pages
...has the following remarkable passage : " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of an object, which produces in us that sensation from which...we denominate the object hot ; so that what in our sensations is heat, in the object is nothing but motion. " These, however, were only happy conjectures.... | |
| 1876 - 802 pages
...said, more than a hundred years ago, " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of an object, which produces in us that sensation from which...we denominate the object hot, so that what in our sensations is heat, in the object is nothing but { motion." Similar views may be vaguely I traced in... | |
| Ernst Laas - 1876 - 380 pages
...Stande sei. Und er hat von diesem Standpunkt aus jene « Erklärung » von der Wärme gegeben ( « a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us the sensation»), welche Joule selbst so beifallswürdig fand, dass er sie bekanntlich einer seiner... | |
| 1876 - 808 pages
...said, more than a hundred years ago, " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of an object, which produces in us that sensation from which we denominate the object hot, HO that what in our sensations is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." Similar views may be... | |
| John Tyndall - 1876 - 706 pages
...beyond the pale of doubt by the excellent quantitative researches of Mr. Joule. ' Heat,' says Locke,' is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produce in us that sensation from which we denominate the object hot: -.> what in our sensations is... | |
| John Tyndall - 1876 - 656 pages
...beyond the pale of doubt by the excellent quantitative researches of Mr. Joule. ' Heat,' says Locke, ' is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produce in us that sensation from which we denominate the object hot : so what in our sensations is... | |
| Thomas Minchin Goodeve - 1879 - 364 pages
...which it is customary to quote the following passage from Locke's writings, where it is stated : — ' Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but... | |
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