 Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation, from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing b,ut motion.  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 438by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Marcellus John Thompson - Evolution - 1887 - 232 pages
...are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion." Locke, later on,* insists that " what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." And John Tyndall, in his " Heat as a Mode of Motion " (a work which has placed him in the front rank... | |
 | Georg Ferdinand Helm - Force and energy - 1887 - 120 pages
...Wärmetheorie) fügt Anaxagoras , Empedokles und Aristoteles bei; Joule konnte den Locke'schen Satz zitieren: what in our Sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion; Rodwell (Phil. mag. [4] 24) hob Bacos Anrechte hervor und Bohn (Phil, mag. [4] 28 und Ann. de chim.... | |
 | John Gray McKendrick - Histology - 1888 - 560 pages
...nature of heat. So long ago as the beginning of the 18th century Locke wrote the following passage : "Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible...the object, which produces in us that sensation from which we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but... | |
 | W. S. Cassedy - Solar system - 1888 - 236 pages
...theory of heat." That motion may be a cause of heat, was the opinion of the celebrated Locke He says : "Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible...object, which produces in us that sensation, from "which we denominate the object hot; so that what in our "sensation is heat in the object is nothing... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - Steam-boilers - 1888 - 710 pages
...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." produced by a power... | |
 | Chemical engineering - 1889 - 612 pages
...itself, its essence and quiddity, is motion, and nothing else ; ' and Locke tells us emphatically that 'what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." Still, these expressions, though far ahead of their day, and indicating great acuteness, were, after... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1890 - 644 pages
...utterance which of late years has been most widely circulated is the following : ' Heat,' says Locke, ' is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...object is nothing but motion. This appears by the way heat is produced ; for we see that. the rubbing of a brass nail upon a board 88 HEAT A MODE OF MOTION.... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot, Edmund Atkinson - Physics - 1890 - 1138 pages
...between heat and motion are to be met with in the older writers, Bacon for example ; and Locke say=, ' Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...that sensation from whence we denominate the object hoi : so that what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion. Rumford, in explaining... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1890 - 666 pages
...titterance which of late years has been most widely circulated is the following : ' Heat,' says Locke, ' is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; BO what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion. This appears by the way heat... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 986 pages
...modern ideas on the subject. He says: " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of an object which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot; so that what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." About the same Heat. Heath.... | |
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