...held a view of this kind,* and Locke stated a similar view with singular felicity. " Heat," he says, " is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...which produces in us that sensation from whence we demonstrate the object hot : so, what iii our sensation is //.'//, in the object is nothing but motion."...

...motion and nothing else." Locke defines heat as "a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of an object, which produces in us that sensation from whence...sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." Descartes and his followers upheld a similar opinion. Richard Boyle, two hundred years ago, actually...

...to speak for itself. I say at the close of the 23rd section of my paper "John Locke writes:—'Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...whence we denominate the object "hot" ; so what in our own sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.' It would be, perhaps, still more precise...

...Stande sei. Und er hat von diesem Standpunkt aus jene « Erklärung » von der Wärme gegeben ( « a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us the sensation»), welche Joule selbst so beifallswürdig fand, dass er sie bekanntlich einer seiner...

...beyond the pale of doubt by the excellent quantitative researches of Mr. Joule. ' Heat,' says Locke,' is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produce in us that sensation from which we denominate the object hot: -.> what in our sensations is...

...beyond the pale of doubt by the excellent quantitative researches of Mr. Joule. ' Heat,' says Locke, ' is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produce in us that sensation from which we denominate the object hot : so what in our sensations is...

...means original with Rumford. Bacon seems to have had the same idea; and Locke says, explicitly enough: "Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object .... so that what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." 8 The British heat-unit...

...explicitly enough : " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object .... so that •what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." * The British heat-unit is the quantity of heat required to heat one pound of water 1° Fahr. from...

...which it is customary to quote the following passage from Locke's writings, where it is stated : — ' Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.' This idea did not find favour with Black, who argued against the possibility of accounting for the phenomena...

...language which if possible seems still more modern, though he wrote of heat nearly 200 years ago : " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." Such, then, is the theory which is now received universally by scientific men, and which claims for...