 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, to...  Notices of the Proceedings - Page 233by Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1872Full view - About this book
 | 1928 - 430 pages
...to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form...anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiment?, except it be motion. Benjamin... | |
 | 1862 - 1550 pages
...Rumford, inquiring into the source of heat developed in the boring of cannon, observed that it was “ extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form...anything capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and cornmunicated in these experiments, except it be motion.” In... | |
 | Richard L. Hills - 1993 - 360 pages
...limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited, and communicated in the manner heat was excited, and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion.17 In the following... | |
 | J. S. Dugdale - 1996 - 220 pages
...to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance: and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing, capable of being excited, and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated... | |
 | Edgar Heilbronner, Foil A. Miller - 2004 - 286 pages
...idea that heat was some sort of matter. He wrote: '. . . it appears to me extremely difficult if not impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything...and communicated in these experiments except it be motion'26. ln 1798 Thompson, by now Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, returned to England. He married... | |
 | Crosbie Smith - 1998 - 424 pages
...therefore heat could not be a material substance. He had further inferred that 'it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated... | |
 | Peter T. Landsberg - 2019 - 334 pages
...possibly be a material substance, and it appears to me...quite impossible to form any distinct ideas of anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments except it be motion. ' It is indeed now considered that the heat energy of any material resides in the energy of motion... | |
 | 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...distinct idea of anything capable of being excited or communicated in the manner in which heat was excited and communicated in the experiments, except... | |
 | Carlos I. Calle - 2001 - 682 pages
...friction, in these experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible . . . [I]t appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form...anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION. Rumford's... | |
 | Harold H. Schobert - 2002 - 672 pages
...to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance, and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing, capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated... | |
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