| Isaac Newton - 1730 - 432 pagine
...Thermometer. Is not the Heat of the warm Room convey'd through the Vacuum by the Vibrations of a much fubtiler Medium than Air, which after the Air was drawn out remained in the Vacuum ? And is not this Medium the fame with that Medium by which Light is refradted and reflected, and by... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1802 - 638 pagine
...such variety." ( BIRCH! Hist, of RS Vol. III. p. 249. Dec. 1675.) " Is not the heat (of the warm room) conveyed through the " vacuum by the vibrations of a much subtiler medium than air? " โ And is not this medium the same with that medium by which " light is refracted and reflected,... | |
| 1809 - 530 pagine
...therefore, ' faid he, ' of a warm room conveyed through the vacuum by the vibrations of a much Subtler medium than air, which, after the air was drawn out, remained in the vacuum ? ' Again, he fays, ' Doth not the refrattion of light proceed from the different denfities of this... | |
| John Aikin - 1808 - 730 pagine
...optic nerve to the brain, cause the sense of seeing. The heat of a warm room is conveyed through a vacuum by the vibrations of a much subtiler medium than air, which, after the air is drawn out, remains in the vacuum. It is by the vibrations of this medium that light is refracted... | |
| Johann Jakob Brucker - 1819 - 618 pagine
...optic nerve to the brain, cause the sense of seeing. The heat of a warm room is conveyed through a vacuum by the vibrations of a much subtiler medium than air, which, after the air is drawn out, remains in the vacuum. It is by the vibrations of this medium, that light is refracted... | |
| Andrew Ure - 1821 - 418 pagine
...ether pervading the universe, rare and elastic in a high degree. " Is not the heat (of the warm room) conveyed through the vacuum by the vibrations of a much subtiler medium than air ? And is not this medium the same with that medium by which light is reflected and refracted, and by... | |
| George G. Carey - 1825 - 274 pagine
...effluvia, and gravitating principle, seem to argue such variety, " Is uot the heat (of the warm room) conveyed through the vacuum by the vibrations of a much subtiler medium than air? โ And is not this medium the same with that medium by which it is refracted and reflected, and by... | |
| Library - 1827 - 712 pagine
...optic nerve to the brain, cause the sense of seeing. The heat of a warm room is conveyed through a vacuum by the vibrations of a much subtiler medium than air, which, after the air is drawn out, remains in the vacuum. It is by the vibrations of this medium, that light is refracted... | |
| 1833 - 754 pagine
...vacuo will grow cold, almost as soon as the other thermometer." " Is not the heat of the warm room conveyed through the vacuum by the vibrations of a...after the air was drawn out, remained in the vacuum ? and is not this medium the same with that medium by which light is reflected and refracted ? And... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pagine
...contains some of that great philosopher's opinions on the subject. โ "Is not the heat of the warm room conveyed through the vacuum by the vibrations of a much subtiler medium than air? And is not this medium the same with that medium by which light is reflected and refracted, and by... | |
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