 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1881 - 508 pages
...attractive powers.' The philosopher Locke held the same view, and expressed it elegantly, thus : ' What in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.' Bacon's definition of heat antedates all this, and is no less explicit. His words are : ' When I say... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1881 - 558 pages
...attractive powers.' The philosopher Locke held the same view, and expressed it elegantly, thus : ' What in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.' Bacon's defmition of heat antedates all this, and is no less explicit. His words are : ' When I say... | |
 | John Locke, James Augustus St. John - Language and languages - 1854 - 576 pages
...parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion. This appears by the way whereby heat is produced ; for we see that the rubbing of a brass nail upon... | |
 | Charles Richardson - English language - 1856 - 952 pages
...-INO. object; which produces in us that -LESS, sensation, from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." — Locke. And the r. To cause the sensation of heat ; to warm ; to inflame; to kindle; (met) to inflame,... | |
 | John Pringle Nichol - Physics - 1860 - 942 pages
...parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." If we add Newton's definition that the force possessed by matter is its power to persevere in its state... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1863 - 538 pages
...parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so that what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.' In 1798, Eumford, inquiring into the source of heat developed in the boring of cannon, observed that... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1863 - 500 pages
...parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so that what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.' In 1798, Rumford, inquiring into the source of heat developed in the boring of cannon, observed that... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1864 - 554 pages
...parts of the object, which produce in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so that what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." Bacon, too, held similar views, and in the Second Book of the Novum Organum he writes, "Heat itself,... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1864 - 626 pages
...parts of the object, which produce in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot : so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." Bacon and Davy held similar views. The theory of heat now adopted by the most distinguished scientific... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1865 - 648 pages
...parts of the object, which produce in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." In an essay read before the Eoyal Society, January 25, 1778, entitled " An inquiry concerning the source... | |
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Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion. 
