...attractive powers.' The philosopher Locke held the same view, and expressed it elegantly, thus : ' What in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.' Bacon's defmition of heat antedates all this, and is no less explicit. His words are : ' When I say...

...brisk agita-ER. tion of the insensible parts of the -INO. object; which produces in us that -LESS, sensation, from whence we denominate the object hot...sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." — Locke. And the r. To cause the sensation of heat ; to warm ; to inflame; to kindle; (met) to inflame,...

...Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature, by Francis Lord Verulam. London, William Pickering, 1850. 2 " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our own sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." — JOHN LOCKE. 3 The first approximate...

...Suggestions/or the Interpretation of Nature, by Francis Lord Verulam. London, William Pickering, 1850. 3 " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our own sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." — JOHN LOCKE. ' The first approximate...

...centuries have passed since Locke gave a definition of heat, which he probably derived from Bacon. — " Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts...sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion." If we add Newton's definition that the force possessed by matter is its power to persevere in its state...

...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 of the object, which produce in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot : so what in our sensation is...

...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 of the object, which produce in us that sensation from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is...

...Eacon long ago suggested that " it is in its essence motion and nothing else." Locke defined it as " a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of...sensation from whence we denominate the object hot." Davy subsequently supported the same view by conclusive experiments. It has since been most ably sustained...

...quantity of heat was developed, and the question may be asked, " whence did the heat come ?" Locke says, " 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...

...have held the belief that he.it was motion, and Locke expressed the same view concisely as follows : " 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 that what in our sensation...