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 form... The Popular Science Monthly - Page 2151878Full view - About this book
| 1774 - 628 pages
...materials employed or acted upon, he says — " 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 that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion,"-)- and then goes... | |
| 1798 - 618 pages
...bodies, can continue to furnish with* out limitation t cannot possibly be a material fiibßance ¡ 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... | |
| Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1798 - 550 pages
...fyftem of bodies, can continue to furnifti without limitation, eannot poffibly be a material fubftance i and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impoffible, to form any diftiuct idea of any thing, capable of being excited and communicated, in the... | |
| 1799 - 648 pages
...appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impoflible, to form any diftinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in thefe experiments, except it be motion. I am very far from pretending to know how, or by what means... | |
| William Nicholson - 1799 - 652 pages
...fyflem of bodies can continue to furnifh -without limitation^ cannot poffibly be a material fubftance j and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impoffible, to form any diilincì idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated in the... | |
| 1800 - 898 pages
...appears to me со be extremelydifficult, if oot quite impollib e, to form uny diftinet idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in thcfe txpcrimenti, except it be MOTION." " Account of fome Endeavours to afcertain a Standard of Weight... | |
| 1800 - 664 pages
...appears to me to be txiremeijr difficult, it not quite impoH.be, to form any difiinfl idea of any tiling capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was elcited and communicated in thefe expc* rimtn-s, except it be MOTIOH." " Account of fome Endeavours... | |
| Samuel Miller - 1803 - 572 pages
...any means one of the smallest which Count RUMFORD suggests, viz. " that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish, without, limitation, cannot be a material substance." Yet tjie electric fluid is granted, on all hands, to be a distinct substance... | |
| 1822 - 494 pages
...not be matter ; for, says he — " It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish...limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance." " Another method of producing heat is by the taking place of chemical attractions. Every chemical attraction... | |
| John Gibson MacVicar - 1830 - 674 pages
...appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to furnish without...not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated in the manner in which beat was excited, and communicated... | |
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