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Thoughts on Matter and Force; Or, Marvels That Encompass Us Comprising Suggestions Illustrative of the Theory of the Earth and of the Universe

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. Problem of heat--Theory--Facilities of inquiry--Heat present in all bodies--Not a substance--An effect of Friction--Evolved from all natural motions--Specific heats--Grassi and Galileo--Substances fired by friction--Operations in the arts and agriculture frictional--Nature's processes for generating heat at large--The earth an apparatus--Ceaseless circulation of matter through her heated centre--Crude notions of her interior, and equatorial bulge--Other errors exploded--Facts confirmatory of the proposed theory--Contraction' causing expansion--Great significance of those two terms--Electrical forms of heat--Results of friction--The earth, as a whole, a self-acting fire mUL As force arises from expansion, and expansion from heat, the questions now occur, What is heat? How is it produced? By what means perpetuated? Problems these, of the highest import, for the heat of the earth is the mechanical force of the earth, and the sum of the heat of the spheres that of the universe. We may be sure that heat, being universal as matter, is in its origin and effects one and the same everywhere: on our orb as on other planets, in the sun as in the rest of the stars. It may differ in its manifestations and intensities, but that no more affects its nature than different tones affect sound, or different speeds motion. The theory that accounts for heat must agree with the diversity of its forms and intensities. The process of its WHAT IS HEAT? 103 evolution must be adapted to matter in all conditions, and be in continual operation in the heavens and the earth, for the ceaseless renewal of an expended result must have a perpetually producing cause; one traceable to an unquestionable attribute of atoms, and in perfect accordance with the evolution of force, sinc...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151638885
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 42
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151638889
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr


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