| Richard L. Hills - 1993 - 360 páginas
...experiment boring the 'head' of a casting for a cannon. (Jamieson, Elementary Manual.) to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance;...it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited, and communicated in the... | |
| Philip Russell Wallace - 1991 - 602 páginas
...It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body can continue to furnish without limitation cannot possibly be a material substance, and it appears to me extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything, capable of being... | |
| J. S. Dugdale - 1996 - 218 páginas
...add, that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance:...not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing, capable of being excited, and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated... | |
| Lawrence S. Lerner - 1996 - 640 páginas
...inexhaustible. . . . [Anything which any insuliiu-J body . . . can continue to furnish without IlltlltiltlOll cannot possibly be a material substance: and it appears to me to be ... impossible to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited ... in [this) manner... | |
| Crosbie Smith - 1998 - 424 páginas
...inexhaustible'' and that therefore heat could not be a material substance. He had further inferred that 'it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated... | |
| Edgar Heilbronner, Foil A. Miller - 2004 - 286 páginas
...idea that heat was some sort of matter. He wrote: '. . . it appears to me extremely difficult if not impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments except it be motion'26. ln 1798 Thompson, by now Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford,... | |
| Carlos I. Calle - 2001 - 682 páginas
...the Heat generated by friction, in these experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible . . . [I]t appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not...capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION. Rumford's brilliant... | |
| Gerald James Holton, Stephen G. Brush - 2001 - 604 páginas
...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 extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being... | |
| Harold H. Schobert - 2002 - 672 páginas
...cannon barrel? Anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance,...not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing, capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated... | |
| Tim Fulford - 2002 - 278 páginas
...add, that any thing 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 dillicult. if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing, capable of being excited,... | |
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