Light, heat, electricity, magnetism, motion, and chemical affinity, are all convertible material affections ; assuming either as the cause, one of the others will be the effect ; thus heat may be said to produce electricity, electricity to produce heat,... The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art - Page 1261859Full view - About this book
| Sir William Robert Grove - 1846 - 114 pages
...material affections ; assuming ^either as the cause, one of the others will be the effect ; thus heat may be said to produce electricity, electricity to...of the rest. Cause and effect, therefore, in their abstract relation to these forces, are words solely of convenience : we are totally unacquainted with... | |
| 1858 - 448 pages
...convertible material affections; assuming any one as a cause, one of the others will be the effect. Thus heat may be said to produce electricity, electricity to...each and all of them, and probably shall ever remain so; we can only ascertain the normal of their action ; we must humbly refer their causation to oue... | |
| Joshua Burgess - 1858 - 308 pages
...abstract relation to these forces, are words solely of convenience, we are unacquainted with the ultimate generating power of each and all of them, and probably shall ever remain so : we can only ascertain the normse of their action ; we must humbly refer their causation to one... | |
| Joseph Jones - 1859 - 444 pages
...material affections ; assuming any one as a cause, one of the others will be the effect. Thus, heat may be said to produce electricity, electricity to...electricity, electricity magnetism; and so of the rest." In this same year, JB Mayer,3 of Heilbronn, saw truly and expressed correctly this general law; and... | |
| American Medical Association - 1859 - 740 pages
...material affections ; assuming any one as a cause, one of the others will be the effect. Thus, heat may be said to produce electricity, electricity to...electricity, electricity magnetism; and so of the rest." In this same year, JK Mayer,3 of Heilbronn, saw truly and expressed correctly this general law; and... | |
| William Robert Grove - 1862 - 308 pages
...material affections ; assuming either as the cause, one of the others will be the effect : thus heat may be said to produce electricity, electricity to...of the rest. Cause and effect, therefore, in their abstract relation to these forces, are words solely of convenience : we are totally unacquainted with... | |
| William Robert Grove - 1862 - 348 pages
...relation to these forces, are words solely of convenience : we are totally unacquainted -with the ultimate generating. power of each and all of them, and probably shall ever remain so ; we can only ascertain the normae of their action : we must humbly refer their causation to one... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1864 - 554 pages
...cause, one of the others will be the effect. Thus, heat may be said to produce electricity, electricity heat ; magnetism to produce electricity, electricity...of the rest. Cause and effect, therefore, in their abstract relation to these forces, are words solely of convenience ; we are totally unacquainted with... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 512 pages
...material affections ; assuming either as the cause, one of the others will be the effect : thus heat may be said to produce electricity, electricity to...of the rest. Cause and effect, therefore, in their abstract relation to these forces, are words sqjely of convenience : we are totally unacquainted with... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans - 1865 - 490 pages
...relation to these forces, are words solely of convenience : we are totally unacquainted with the ultimate generating power of each and all of them, and probably shall ever remain so ; we can only ascertain the normsa of their action : we must humbly refer their causation to one... | |
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