 | Physical and metaphysical inquiries - 1806 - 368 Seiten
...that terrible body fire. It (hews that light produces heat merely by exciting, an infenfible adlbn betwixt caloric and the particles of matter contained...atmofphere by the want of fufficient matter to produce the a£hon of caloric ; and for the cold of the night and the polar regions, by the want of that aftion... | |
 | 1808 - 702 Seiten
...like that terrible body, fire. It shews that light produces heat merely by exciting, an insensible action- betwixt caloric and the particles of matter; contained in bodies. It accounts for the want of heauin the upper regions of the Atmosphere bv the want of sufficient matter to prrJuce the action of... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - 1814 - 584 Seiten
...nature, but no way* destructive, it shows (hat light produces heat merely by exciting an insensible action betwixt caloric and the particles of matter...accounts for the want of heat in the upper regions of the atmosphere by the want of sufficient matter to produce the action of caloric. It destroys the absurd... | |
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It fhews that light produces heat merely by exciting, an infenfible action betwixt caloric and the particles of matter contained in bodies. It accounts for the want of heat in the upper regions of the atmofphere by the want of fufficient matter to produce... 