 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
 | William Robinson (M.E.) - Internal combustion engines - 1890 - 658 pages
...facts like these Lord Bacon, in the Novum Organum, imagined that "heat was motion." John Locke says : " What in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." The early experimental school, under Gilbert, of Colchester, in 1570, regarded heat as a material substance... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - Steam-boilers - 1890 - 704 pages
...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 thai what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." produced by a power... | |
 | John Tyndall - Science - 1892 - 522 pages
...subtleties as Rumford himself. They regarded 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.' Locke, from whom I here quote, and who merely expresses the ideas previously enunciated by Boyle and... | |
 | Manchester Association of Engineers, Manchester, Eng - Engineering - 1892 - 354 pages
...remarkable acumen and prophetic foresight, thus wrote on the subject of Heat : — "Heat," he says, "is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...sensation from whence we denominate the object hot; so that what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." There is no doubt that Locke... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1895 - 552 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 will make it very hot,... | |
 | Science - 1878 - 804 pages
..." Conduct of the Human Understanding, Elements of Natural Philosophy," chap. ii., where he says : " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...of the object which produces in us that sensation whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but... | |
 | Park Benjamin - Electricity - 1895 - 634 pages
...and electricity were somehow correlated. Locke, in his Essay on the Human Understanding, says that "what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." Hooke plainly perceived heat as a vibration, and denies the existence of anything without motion, and... | |
 | John Tyndall - Science - 1896 - 536 pages
...agitation of the insensible parts of an object which produces in us that sensation from whence «e denominate the object hot; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.' Locke, from whom I here quote, and who merely expresses the ideas previously enunciated by Boyle and... | |
 | Thomas Minchin Goodeve - Heat-engines - 1898 - 454 pages
...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...denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat,-in the object is nothing but motion.' This idea did not find favour with Black, who argued against... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 988 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, m the object is nothing but motion." About the same 399 Heath.... | |
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