...remarkable utterance which of late years has been most widely circulated is the following. " Heat," says Locke, " 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...

...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....

...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...

...heat." That motion may be a cause of heat, was the opinion of the celebrated Locke He says : "Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts "of the object, which produces in us that sensation, from "which we denominate the object hot; so that what in our "sensation...

...of heat. So long ago as the beginning of the 18th century Locke wrote the following passage : "Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from which we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is...

...itself, its essence and quiddity, is motion, and nothing else ; ' and Locke tells us emphatically that 'what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." Still, these expressions, though far ahead of their day, and indicating great acuteness, were, after...

...remarkable utterance which of late years has been most widely circulated is the following : ' Heat,' says Locke, ' 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...

...parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; BO 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...

...of an 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." About the same Heat. Heath. time, Huygens, in his Tractatus de Lumine, brought forward the undulatory...

...facts like these Lord Bacon, in the Novum Organum, imagined that "heat was motion." John Locke says : " What in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." The early experimental school, under Gilbert, of Colchester, in 1570, regarded heat as a material substance...