 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 form...  A College Text-book of Physics - Page 275by Arthur Lalanne Kimball - 1911 - 692 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1774 - 628 pages
...materials employed or acted upon, he says — " 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 manner that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion,"-)- and then goes... | |
 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1798 - 550 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | 1798 - 618 pages
...furnish with* out limitation t cannot possibly be a material fiibßance ¡ and 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... | |
 | 1799 - 648 pages
...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 in 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 - 1799 - 652 pages
...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 manner the heat was ex-- cited and communicated in thefe experiments, except it be motion, I am very far from pretending... | |
 | 1800 - 898 pages
...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, in 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
...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 any thing capable of being excited and communicated in the manner in which beat was excited, and communicated... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...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 any thing, capable of being excited, and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated... | |
 | 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...distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and commuuicated in these experiments, except it be motion." The Count does not presume to deliver mere... | |
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