To suppose, as Lyell, adopting the chemical hypothesis, has do net, that the substances, combining together, may be again separated electrolytically by thermo-electric currents, due to the heat generated by their combination, and thus the chemical action... Mathematical and Physical Papers - Pàgina 296per William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1890Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1862 - 370 pàgines
...combination, and thus the chemical action and its heat continued in an endless cycle, violates the first principles of natural philosophy in exactly the same...expectations of its ingenious inventor by going for ever. Adopting as the more probable, the simpler hypothesis that the * Principles of Geology. earth is merely... | |
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1862 - 684 pàgines
...combination, and thus the chemical action and its heat continued in an endless cycle, violates the first principles of natural philosophy in exactly the same manner and to the same degree, as to beliere that a clock constructed with a self-winding movement may fulfil the expectations of its ingenious... | |
| 1863 - 320 pàgines
...combination, and thus the chemical action and its heat continued in an endless cycle, violates tho first principles of natural philosophy, in exactly the same...expectations of its ingenious inventor by going for ever. Adopting as the more probable, the simpler hypothesis that the earth is merely a heated body cooling,... | |
| 1864 - 382 pàgines
...combination, and thus the chemical action and its heat continued in an endless cycle, violates the first principles of natural philosophy, in exactly the same...the expectations of its ingenious inventor by going forever. Fourier's theory of the conduction of heat to trace the earth's thermal history backwards.... | |
| 1865 - 372 pàgines
...combination, and thus the chemical action and its heat continued in an endless cycle, violates the first principles of natural philosophy, in exactly the same...the expectations of its ingenious inventor by going forever. "Adopting as the more probable, the simpler hypothesis that the earth is merely a heated body... | |
| 1865 - 372 pàgines
...combination, and thus the chemical action and its heat continued in an endless cycle, violates the first principles of natural philosophy, in exactly the same...self-winding movement may fulfil the expectations oi' its ingenious inventor by going forever. "Adopting as the more probable, the simpler hypothesis... | |
| 1867 - 378 pàgines
...combination, and thus the chemical action and its heat continued in an endless cycle, violates the first principles of natural philosophy, in exactly the same...self-winding movement may fulfil the expectations of its iugenious inventor by going forever. "Adopting as the more probable, the simpler hypothesis that the... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1867 - 914 pàgines
...violates the principles of natural philosophy in exactly the same manner, and to the same degr.<-. as to believe that a clock constructed with a self-winding...fulfil the expectations of its ingenious inventor bv going for ever. (A.) It must indeed be admitted that many geological writer? of the " Uniformitarian... | |
| 1869 - 668 pàgines
...products formed, thus giving a perpetual cycle. As Sir W. Thomson remarks, this extraordinary notion " violates the principles of natural philosophy in exactly...expectations of its ingenious inventor by going for ever." If we take the far more- probable hypothesis that the internal heat of the earth, like that of the... | |
| William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1883 - 564 pàgines
...its heat electric perpetual continued in an endless cycle, violates the principles of natural motion. philosophy in exactly the same manner, and to the...expectations of its ingenious inventor by going for ever. * Another kind of dynamical action, capable of generating heat in the interior of the earth, is the... | |
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