 | John Tyndall - 1879 - 662 pages
...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 heat in the object is nothing but motion.' When the electric current, still... | |
 | 1880 - 694 pages
...language which if possible seems still more modern, though he wrote of heat nearly 200 years ago : " 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... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1881 - 572 pages
...held a view of this kind,* and Locke stated a similar view with singular felicity. " Heat," he says, " is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we demonstrate the object hot : so, what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing... | |
 | Henry Kiddle - 1883 - 296 pages
...in the particles is modified also ; it is not sluggish, but hurried and with violence." Locke said: "Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that emotion from which we denominate the object hot ; so that what in our sensation is heat, in the object... | |
 | James Prescott Joule - 1884 - 706 pages
...Paris, &c. &c. &c.) [' Philosophical Transactions,' 1860, Part I. Read June 21, 1849.] (PLATE II.) " 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 /"/••/, in the object is nothing... | |
 | 1886 - 552 pages
...utterance which of late years has been most widely circulated is the following. " Heat," says Locke, " 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... | |
 | Charles Force Deems, John Bancroft Devins - 1886 - 508 pages
...scientific superstition. " Heat," said Mr. Locke, " is a very brisk agitation of the inscrutable parts of an object which produces in us that sensation from which we denominate the object hot; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion" This theory has been maintained... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot, Edmund Atkinson - 1886 - 1054 pages
...between heat and motion are '" be met with in the older writers, Bacon for example ; and Locke says, ' Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which pTKiuces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; ••• that what in our... | |
 | John Gray McKendrick - 1888 - 560 pages
...nature of heat. So long ago as the beginning of the 18th century Locke wrote the following passage : "Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible...sensation from which we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." (John Locke, Natural Philo*>phi/,... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1890 - 704 pages
...means original with Rumford. Bacon seems to have had the same idea; and Locke says, explicitly enough: "Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, ... so thai what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." produced by a power... | |
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Heat is 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 what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion. 
