 ... soever the motions of animals may be, whatever may be the change which the molecules of our food undergo within our bodies, the whole energy of animal life consists in the falling of the atoms of carbon and hydrogen and nitrogen from the high level...  All the Year Round - Page 331866Full view - About this book
 | Chemistry - 1865 - 338 pages
...oxygen of our breath on the other. As well observed by Dr. Tyndall, — " It is at his (ie, the sun's) cost that animal heat is produced, and animal motion accomplished. Not only is the sun chilled, that we may have our fires, but he is likewise chilled that we may have our powers... | |
 | William Odling - Biochemistry - 1866 - 218 pages
...hand, and oxygen of our breath on the other. As ingeniously observed by Dr. Tyndall, when speaking of the sun,—' It is at his cost that animal heat is...produced, and animal motion accomplished. Not only is the sun chilled, that we may have our fires, but he is likewise chilled that we may have our powers... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1868 - 560 pages
...and hydrogen and nitrogen from the high level which they occupy in the food, to the low level which they occupy when they quit the body. But what has...the level which rendered the fall possible ? We have » Phil. Mag. 1856, vol. ix. p. 510. already learned that it is the sun. It is at his cost that animal... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1869 - 566 pages
...and hydrogen and nitrogen from the high level which they occupy in the food, to the low level which they occupy when they quit the body. But what has...is the sun chilled, that we may have our fires, but he is likewise chilled that we may have our powers of locomotion. The subject is of such vast importance,... | |
 | Science - 1872 - 798 pages
...and hydrogen and nitrogen from the high level which they occupy in the food to the low level which they occupy when they quit the body. But what has...heat is produced and animal motion accomplished." When I speak of there being in each nerve cell or centre a condition, varying within certain limits,... | |
 | Science - 1872 - 806 pages
...and hydrogen and nitrogen from thc high level which they occupy in the food to the low level which they occupy when they quit the body. But what has...heat is produced and animal motion accomplished." When I speak of there being in each nerve cell or centre a condition, varying within certain limits,... | |
 | 1873 - 526 pages
...and hydrogen and nitrogen from the high level which they occupy in the food to the low level which they occupy when they quit the body. But what has enabled the carbon and the hydrogen to full? What first raised them to the level which rendered the fall possible ? We have already learned... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1873 - 582 pages
...and hydrogen, and nitrogen, from the high level which they occupy in the food to the low level which they occupy when they quit the body. But what has enabled the carbon * PhU. Mag. 1856, voL ix. p. 610. and the hydrogen to fall ? What first raised them to the level •which... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1881 - 572 pages
...and hydrogen, and nitrogen, from the high level which they occupy in the food to the low level which they occupy when they quit the body. But what has enabled the carbon * PhU. Mag. 1856, vol. ix. p. 610. 21 and the hydrogen to fall ? What first raised them tj the level... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 552 pages
...and hydrogen and nitrogen from the high level which they occupy in the food to the low level which they occupy when they quit the body. But what has...them to the level which rendered the fall possible? It is the sun. Not only is the sun chilled that we may have our external fires, but he is likewise... | |
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