 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1843 - 490 ページ
...In accordance with this doctrine, Sir H. Davy observes, in his Chemical Philosophy, that " the cause of heat is motion, and the laws of its communication...same as the laws of the communication of motion." But in the Treatise on Life and Death, as also in his Natural History, Bacon maintains that " there... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 878 ページ
...Davy on this most pot.h«i; abstruse subject. " The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat, then, is motion ; and the laws of its communication are...the same as the laws of the communication of motion. Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller volume by cooling, it is evident that the particles... | |
 | William Henry Holcombe - 1852 - 344 ページ
...of the generating batteries. "The immediate cause of the phenomena of Heat," says Sir Humphrey Davy, "is motion, and the laws of its communication are...same as the laws of the communication of motion." Its phenomena have been perfectly illustrated by a comparison with those of sound, which we know to... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1853 - 390 ページ
...on the superficial temperature. Davy remarks : " The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat, then, is motion ; and the laws of its communication are...the same as the laws of the communication of motion. Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller volume by cooling, it is evident that the particles... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1861 - 594 ページ
...permanence of heat to the existence of heatvibrations in the solid particles of matter itself. He remarks, " The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat is motion...the same as the laws of the communication of motion. Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller volume by cooling, it is evident that the parti«les... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 556 ページ
...its parts must have separated from each other. The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat, then, is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely...same as the laws of the communication of motion.' Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller space by cooling, it is evident that the particles of... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 502 ページ
...experiments, except it be motion.' In 1812, Davy wrote : ' The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat, then, is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the comLETTER OF MR. JOULE. 463 munication of motion ; ' * and he confirmed his views by that original... | |
 | 1864 - 632 ページ
...the heat contained in the water. Hence Davy concludes that ' the immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat is motion, and ' the laws of its communication...same as the ' laws of the communication of motion.' If, as it would appear, heat be nothing more than motion, either of the ultimate particles of matter... | |
 | 1864 - 560 ページ
...definite and most important proposition : — "The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat, then, is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely...same as the laws of the communication of motion." The immense consequences of this statement we shall presently consider, after we have briefly described... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1864 - 484 ページ
...its parts must have separated from each other. The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat, then, is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely...same as the laws of the communication of motion.' Since all matter may be made to fill a smaller space by cooling, it is evident that the particles of... | |
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The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat then is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same, as the laws of the communication of motion. 
