The Conservation of EnergyD. Appleton, 1875 - 239 páginas |
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Conservation of Energy: Being an Elementary Treatise on Energy and Its Laws Balfour Stewart Visualização integral - 1873 |
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absorbed heat action actual motion albuminoids ALEXANDER BAIN amount amyloids animal Aristotle atoms attraction battery bismuth body carbonic acid carnivora cause changed into heat chemical affinity chemical compounds chemical force chemical separation CO₂ coal combustion conservation of energy correlation decompose decomposition dextrine difference direction earth electric current electrical separation energy of position equal existence expenditure fact force of cohesion friction galvanometer glass gravity head of water high temperature instance Joule kilogramme kilogramme of water kind machine magnet mass means mental metres mind molecular molecules moving nature organic matter oxidation oxygen particles peculiar perpetual motion phenomena physical forces piston plane plants poles principle produced quantity radiant energy raise rays regard rubbed scientific spent substance suppose takes place tion tissues transmutation of energy tricity truth ultimately units upwards vegetable velocity visible energy visible motion vital force weight wire zinc
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Página 217 - When, as in pure feeling — pleasure or pain — we change to the subject attitude from the object attitude, we have undergone a change not to be expressed by place ; the fact is not properly described by the transition from the external to the internal, for that is still a change in the region of the extended. The only adequate expression is a change of state : a change from the state of the extended cognition to a state of unextended cognition.
Página 212 - From the ingress of a sensation, to the outgoing responses in action, the mental succession is not for an instant dissevered from a physical succession.
Página 135 - Aristotle decides that there is no void, on such arguments as this:' — In a void there could be no difference of up and down; for as in nothing there are no differences, so there are none in a privation or negation...