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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. "
A History of Electricity: (The Intellectual Rise in Electricity) from ... - Page 417
by Park Benjamin - 1898 - 605 pages
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Text-book on the Steam Engine

Thomas Minchin Goodeve - Steam-engines - 1882 - 314 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 idea did not find favour with Black, who argued against the possibility of accounting for...
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A Text-book on Physics: Being a Short and Complete Course Based Upon the ...

Henry Kiddle - Physics - 1883 - 296 pages
...parts of the object, which produces in us that emotion from which we denominate the object hot ; so that what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." Bumford and Davy, in later times expressed similar views ; but it was not until Mayer, in 1842, demonstrated...
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The Moon Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite

James Nasmyth, James Carpenter - Moon - 1885 - 374 pages
...parts of an 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." Descartes and his followers upheld a similar opinion. Richard Boyle, two hundred years ago, actually...
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Christian Thought, Volume 4

Charles Force Deems, John Bancroft Devins - Apologetics - 1886 - 508 pages
...parts of an object which produces in us that sensation from which we denominate the object hot; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion" This theory has been maintained and greatly illustrated by researches since the time of Mr. Locke....
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The American Library of Art, Literature and Song, Volume 2

Literature - 1886 - 552 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 heat is produced ; for we see that the rubbing of a brass nail upon a board...
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"Evolution of Sound" Evolved: A Review of the Article Entitled "The Nature ...

Marcellus John Thompson - Evolution - 1887 - 232 pages
...communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion." Locke, later on,* insists that " what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." And John Tyndall, in his " Heat as a Mode of Motion " (a work which has placed him in the front rank...
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Die Lehre von der Energie: historisch-kritisch Entwickelt, nebst beiträgen ...

Georg Ferdinand Helm - Force and energy - 1887 - 120 pages
...Wärmetheorie) fügt Anaxagoras , Empedokles und Aristoteles bei; Joule konnte den Locke'schen Satz zitieren: what in our Sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion; Rodwell (Phil. mag. [4] 24) hob Bacos Anrechte hervor und Bohn (Phil, mag. [4] 28 und Ann. de chim....
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Is the Copernican System of Astronomy True?

W. S. Cassedy - Solar system - 1888 - 236 pages
...parts "of the object, which produces in us that sensation, from "which we denominate the object hot; so that what in our "sensation is heat in the object is nothing but motion. — Locke's Ele. Nat. Phil. C. 11. This view is confirmed by experiment, for we are told by Prof. Newcomb...
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A Manual of Steam-boilers: Their Design, Construction, and Operation

Robert Henry Thurston - Steam-boilers - 1888 - 710 pages
...says, explicitly enough: " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, ... so that what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." produced by a power which he states could easily be exerted by one horse, and makes it equal to the...
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General physiology of the tissues

John Gray McKendrick - Histology - 1888 - 560 pages
...parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from which we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." (John Locke, Natural Philo*>phi/, 1706.) Professor Tait shows (op. cit. Lecture II.) that Sir Isaac...
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