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. THE WORKS OF JOHN LOCKE - Sivu 300tekijä(t) J. JOHNSON - 1801Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| John Tyndall - 1868 - 560 sivua
...held a view of this kind,* and Locke stated a similar view with singular felicity. ' Heat,' he says, ' is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion? The experiments of Count Rumford f on the boring of cannon have been already referred to. Now he showed... | |
| Alfred Marshall Mayer - 1868 - 140 sivua
...struggle in the particles is modified also; it is not sluggish, but hurried and with violence." Locke — "Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produce in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot; so what in our sensation is... | |
| Alfred Marshall Mayer - 1868 - 140 sivua
...struggle in the particles is modified also ; it is not sluggish, but hurried and with violence." Locke — "Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produce in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot; so what in our sensation is... | |
| Adolphe Ganot - 1868 - 886 sivua
...between heat and motion m to be met with in the older writers, Bacon for example ; and Locke «T»— ' Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, rhich produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hoi ; ao that what in our... | |
| Albert James Bernays - 1869 - 366 sivua
...steam. Heat is but an accident of matter, namely, — a motion of its ultimate particles. Locke says : " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." 9. The temperature of a body should be distinguished from its heat. Temperature may be determined by... | |
| Charles Frederick Winslow, M.D. - 1869 - 514 sivua
...mechanical, and projectile functions. Two centuries ago, the acute philosopher John Locke stated that " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible "...sensation " from whence we denominate the object hot; so that what " in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." No definition could be... | |
| 1869 - 348 sivua
...Kinetic theory, received a very apt expression in the following definition given by John Locke : — " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...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... | |
| 1869 - 668 sivua
...Kinetic theory, received a very apt expression in the following definition given by John Locke : — " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...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... | |
| Warren Felt Evans - 1869 - 364 sivua
...parts of an 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." This theory, was maintained by Bacon, Newton, Count Rumford, Sir Humphrey Davy and others. As light and... | |
| Charles Frederick Winslow - 1869 - 504 sivua
...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." No definition could be more exactly stated, and no subsequent studies or discoveries have changed the... | |
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