 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,...  The Missouri Yearbook of Agriculture: Annual Report - Page 523by Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - 1869Full view - About this book
 | Andrew Jamieson - 1889 - 532 pages
...And, further — "It is hardly necessary to add that anything which an insulated body or system of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance ; it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not impossi form any distinct idea of anything capable... | |
 | William Robinson (M.E.) - 1890 - 658 pages
...proceeds : — " It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation,...it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1892 - 522 pages
...be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation...it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1892 - 392 pages
...inexhaustible. "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. It appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything... | |
 | Thomas Preston - 1894 - 744 pages
...insulated body or system of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation 42 THEORY OF HEAT CHAP, i 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 anything capable of being excited and communicated in... | |
 | Thomas Preston - 1894 - 750 pages
...source of the heat generated by friction in these experiments appeared evidently to be inexhaustible." 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 anything capable of being excited and communicated in... | |
 | 1878 - 804 pages
...inexhaustible. "It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any ineulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation,...it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1895 - 552 pages
...italics are Rumford's.] It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body or system of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation...it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in... | |
 | Alfred Payson Gage - 1895 - 668 pages
...rubbed the caloric is rubbed or squeezed out of it ; but, as Rumford argued, " anything which a body can continue to furnish without limitation cannot possibly be a material substance." At about the same time Davy showed that two pieces of ice may be melted by rubbing them together in... | |
 | Henry Smith Carhart - 1896 - 460 pages
...concludes as follows : " It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation...possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being... | |
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