 | 1774 - 628 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1798 - 618 pagine
...bodies, can continue to 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... | |
 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1798 - 550 pagine
...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... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1799 - 652 pagine
...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... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1803 - 572 pagine
...any means one of the smallest which Count RUMFORD suggests, viz. " that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish, without, limitation, cannot be a material substance." Yet tjie electric fluid is granted, on all hands, to be a distinct substance... | |
 | 1822 - 494 pagine
...not be matter ; for, says he — " It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish...limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance." " Another method of producing heat is by the taking place of chemical attractions. Every chemical attraction... | |
 | John Gibson MacVicar - 1830 - 674 pagine
...appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to furnish without...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 pagine
...appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish...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... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1852 - 430 pagine
...could" not be matter: for says he, " It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish...limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance." Another method of producing heat is by the taking place of chemical attractions. Every chemical attraction,... | |
 | 1861 - 460 pagine
...source of it appeared evidently to be inexhaustible, the Count adds that "anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish...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... | |
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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... 
