| 1859 - 448 pages
...anew the compound combustible substances, albumen, sugar, oil, on which the animal subsists. Hero, therefore, is a circuit which appears to be a perpetual...both organic kingdoms produce the perpetual motion t We must not conclude hastily : further inquiry shows, that plants are capable of producing combustible... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans - 1865 - 490 pages
...of nutriment taken daily ; the remainder, sugar, starch, fat, are really only materials for warming, and are perhaps not to be superseded by coal, simply...both organic kingdoms produce the perpetual motion ? We must not conclude hastily : further inquiry shows, that plants are capable of producing combustible... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 512 pages
...in the animal's body, in order in the end to gain it for ourselves in a more agreeable and usefill form. In answer to our question, therefore, we are...forces. Would not the combination of both organic kingdqjns produce the perpetual motion ? We must not conclude hastily : further inquiry shows, that... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 500 pages
...principal part of the former consists in the products of combustion which are generated by the ani111.1!. They take the consumed carbon given off in respiration,...both organic kingdoms produce the perpetual motion? We must not conclude hastily : further inquiry shows, that plants are capable of producing combustible... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans - 1868 - 526 pages
...useful form. In answer to our question, therefore, we arc referred to the vegetable world. Now whe» what plants take in and what they give out are made...both organic kingdoms produce the perpetual motion ? Wo must not conclude hastily : further inquiry shows, that plants are capable of producing combustible... | |
| John Timbs - 1869 - 280 pages
...oil, on which the animal subsists. Here, therefore, is a circuit which appears to be a perpetual etore of force. Plants prepare fuel and nutriment, animals...both organic kingdoms produce the perpetual motion ? We must not conclude hastily. Further inquiry shows that plants are capable of producing combustible... | |
| George Western Thompson - 1869 - 468 pages
...for food." Then describing the process of nutrition from plants and plant-eating animals, he adds, " Here, therefore, is a circuit which appears to be...eternal source of chemical, the former of mechanical [muscular?] forces. "Would not the combination of both organic kingdoms produce the perpetual motion... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans - 1870 - 484 pages
...food. The animals which live on plants; occupy a mean position between carnivorous animals, in ^ hich we reckon man, and vegetables, which the former could...both organic kingdoms produce the perpetual motion? We must not conclude hastily : further inquiry shows, that plants are capable of producing combustible... | |
| 1859 - 448 pages
...these substances to the powerful digestion of tho ox, permit tho nourishment to store itself in tho animal's body, in order in the end to gain it for...forces. Would not the combination of both organic kingdoma produce the perpetual motion 1 We must not conclude hastily : further inquiry shows, that... | |
| William Robert Grove - 1872 - 640 pages
...these materials, with the assistance of small ingredients which they take from the soil, they gonerate anew the compound combustible substances, albumen,...both organic kingdoms produce the perpetual motion ? We must not conclude hastily : further inquiry shows, that plants are capable of producing combustible... | |
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