 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, to...  The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 4191798Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - Charities - 1798 - 550 pages
...fyftem of bodies, can continue to furnifti without limitation, eannot poffibly be a material fubftance i and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impoffible, to form any diftiuct idea of any thing, capable of being excited and communicated, in the... | |
 | 1799 - 648 pages
...fubftance ; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impoflible, to form any diftinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated...the manner the heat was excited and communicated in thefe experiments, except it be motion. I am very far from pretending to know how, or by what means... | |
 | William Nicholson - Chemistry - 1799 - 652 pages
...fyflem of bodies can continue to furnifh -without limitation^ cannot poffibly be a material fubftance j and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impoffible, to form any diilincì idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated in the... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1800 - 898 pages
...¡ubflancr ; and it appears to me со be extremelydifficult, if oot quite impollib e, to form uny diftinet idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated,...the manner the heat was excited and communicated in thcfe txpcrimenti, except it be MOTION." " Account of fome Endeavours to afcertain a Standard of Weight... | |
 | 1800 - 664 pages
...appears to me to be txiremeijr difficult, it not quite impoH.be, to form any difiinfl idea of any tiling capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was elcited and communicated in thefe expc* rimtn-s, except it be MOTIOH." " Account of fome Endeavours... | |
 | John Gibson MacVicar - 1830 - 674 pages
...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...capable of being excited and communicated in the manner in which beat was excited, and communicated in these experiments, except it be MoTiONf. Dr Young, in... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1861 - 460 pages
...to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to bo extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and commuuicated in these experiments, except it be motion." The... | |
 | John Pringle Nichol - Physics - 1860 - 942 pages
...air, &c., but found no reason to suspect that such was the case. He therefore concluded that it was "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... | |
 | EDWARDL.YOUMANS,M.D. - 1863 - 468 pages
...system of bodies can continue to furnish ivithout limitation, cannot possibly be & material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if...thing capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.' principle of correlation between mechanical force and heat... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1863 - 538 pages
...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, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in those experiments, except it be MOTION. COMPRESSION... | |
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