 | 1864 - 572 pages
...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 anything...communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION." "We shall have occasion again, more than once, to make valuable extracts from this extremely lucid... | |
 | 1864 - 560 pages
...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 anything capable of being excited, and communicated in the mauner that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION." We shall... | |
 | Henry Watts - Chemistry - 1865 - 1110 pages
...cylinder and borer were supported, he says: — "It appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything...capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION." : According to Joule's... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1865 - 648 pages
...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 anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION." This is the first and perhaps the best argument on this point,... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1866 - 492 pages
...cannot possibly be a material »«*stance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in those experiments, except it be MOTION. "When the history of the dynamical theory of heat is. written,... | |
 | Medicine - 1866 - 646 pages
...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 anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION." Precisely to the same effect, Sir Humphrey Davy expresses... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - Thermodynamics - 1868 - 148 pages
...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 anything...communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.' Had Eumford only completed his experiment, by dissolving separately in an acid the brass turnings,... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1868 - 560 pages
...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 anything capable of being excited and communicated in those experiments, except it be MOTION.' When the history of the dynamical theory of heat is written.... | |
 | Henry Bence Jones - 1868 - 240 pages
...which is excited by friction. "It appears to me," he says, "to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments, except motion." In 1799, Davy published a paper on heat and light, in which he said... | |
 | Alfred Marshall Mayer - Matter - 1868 - 140 pages
...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 anything capable of being excited and communicated in those experiments, except motion." Davy. — First scientific memoir, entitled "On Heat, Light, and... | |
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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,... 
