 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1864 - 554 pages
...the quantity is only a small fraction of the heat contained in the water. Hence Davy concludes that " the immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat is motion, and the laws of its communication arc precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion." If, as it wonld appear, heat be... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1865 - 490 pages
...1812 that Davy wrote in Ms Chemical Philosophy, " The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat then is motion, and -the laws of its communication are precisely the same as those of the communication of motion." When, therefore,- : we' remember that Davy's first publication... | |
 | Henry Watts - 1865 - 1110 pages
...and expressed himself in very similar terms : — " The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat then is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same aa the laws of the communication of motion." (Elrniftits of Chtmicai Philosophy, London, 1812, pp.... | |
 | 1866 - 646 pages
...observations of his own, (Chemical Philosophy, p. 94,) : " As would appear from Count Rumford's experiments, the immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat is motion,...same as the laws of the communication of motion." And again, (Memoir on heat, &c., Works, vol. ii.) : -"It has been experimentally demonstrated that... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1866 - 492 pages
...experiments, except it be motion.' In 1812, Davy wrote : ' The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat, then, is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely...the same as the laws of the communication of motion ; ' * and he confirmed his views by that original and most interesting experiment in which ho melted... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 560 pages
...its parts must have separated from each other. The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat, then, is motion ; and the laws of its communication are...motion. ' Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller space by cooling, it IB evident that the particles of matter must have space between them ; and since... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1868 - 148 pages
...definite and most important proposition :— ' The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat, then, is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely...same as the laws of the communication of motion.' The immense consequences of this statement we shall presently consider, after we have briefly described... | |
 | GEORGE FOWNES, F.R.S. - 1869 - 876 pages
...heat of the ice itself. Hence Davy * drew the conclusion that, "The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat is motion, and the laws of its communication...same as the laws of the communication of motion." The mechanical, or dynamical theory, which regarded heat as consisting in a state of molecular motion,... | |
 | George Fownes - 1870 - 894 pages
...heat of the ice itself. Hence Davy* drew the conclusion that, "The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat is motion, and the laws of its communication...same as the laws of the communication of motion." The mechanical, or dynamical theory, which regarded heat as consisting in a state of molecular motion,... | |
 | Henry Watts - 1871 - 1128 pages
...and expressed himself in very similar terms: — "The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat then is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communicat ion of motion." (Elements tif Chi-mical Philosophy, London, 1812, pp. 94, 95.) Similar views... | |
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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. 
