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" Do not all fixed bodies, when heated beyond a certain degree, emit light and shine, and is not this emission performed by the vibrating motions of their parts? "
The History of Philosophy, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the ... - Page 612
by William Enfield, Johann Jakob Brucker - 1791
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The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq ..., Volume 3

Robert Boyle - Chemistry - 1725 - 788 pages
...vivid and (bong, as that of a glowingco.il briskly agitated with bellows. " Do not, fays Sir //. Newtm, all fixed " bodies, when heated beyond a certain " degree, emit light and (hiñe ; and is " not this emiffion performed by the " vibrating motion of their parts ? And " do not...
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Philosophical Conversations: Or, A New System of Physics, by Way ..., Volume 1

Regnault (Père, Noël) - Physics - 1731 - 498 pages
...Tallow, Wax, Wood, Pitch, " Sulphur, &c. by flaming, wafte and vanifh into burning " Smoak. " And do not all fixed Bodies, when heated beyond a certain " Degree, emit Light and fliine ; and is not this Emiflion per" formed by the vibrating Motion of their Parts ? And do not all...
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Memoirs of the chevalier Pierpoint, Volume 3

Pierpoint (chevalier, fict.name.) - 1763 - 210 pages
...query of Sir Ifaac Newton will perhaps give us the bell notion of this appearance. " Do not, fays he, all fixed bodies, when heated beyond a certain degree, emit light, and {hine ? And is not this emifiion performed by the vibrating motions of their parts ? And do not all...
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Contributions to Physical and Medical Knowledge: Principally from the West ...

Thomas Beddoes - Chemistry - 1799 - 596 pages
...pas fur les organes de la " vue. FOURCKOY Elem. t. 1. p. 127 The immortal Newton fays, " Do not all bodies when " heated beyond a certain degree, emit light and fhine, " and is not this emiffion performed by the vibratory mo" tions of their parts," &c. See 8, Q, and 10 queries...
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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most ..., Volume 7

John Aikin - Biography - 1808 - 730 pages
...It is probable, that all the phenomena of nature depend upen certain forces, by which, from causes not yet known, the particles of bodies are either...mutually repel and recede from each other. Bodies and lighr mutually act upon one another. All fixed bodies, when heated beyond a certain degree, emit light,...
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The History of Philosophy: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

Johann Jakob Brucker - Philosophy - 1819 - 618 pages
...It is probable, that all the phenomena of nature depend upon certain forces, by which, from causes not yet known, the particles of bodies are either...when heated beyond a certain degree, emit light, and shine, and this emission is performed by the •vibrating motion of their parts. Fire is a body heated...
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Library for the people. (Division 1). The wonders of nature and art ..., Issue 2

Library - 1827 - 712 pages
...It is probable, that all the phenomena of nature depend upon certain forces, by which, from causes not yet known, the particles of bodies are either...when heated beyond a certain degree, emit light, and shine, and this emission is performed by the vibrating motion of their parts. Fire is body heated so...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 22

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 878 pages
...quicksilver, would repel it a little upwards, and make it vibrate a little up and down. Boyle. Do not all fixed bodies, when heated beyond a certain degree, emit light, and shine! And is not this emission performed by the vibrating motions of their parts Î Xewtm. The whisper...
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Proceedings of the American Association for the ..., Volume 37, Part 1888

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1889 - 542 pages
...admit, too, that it is a bright one, when we read in the " Optics" such passages as these : — " Do not all fixed bodies, when heated beyond a certain degree, emit light and shine, and is not this emission performed by the vibrating motions of their parts?" And again: Do not...
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Cyclopadic Science Simplified

John Henry Pepper - Chemistry - 1869 - 722 pages
...Corpuscular Theory of Light, appears to have entertained the opinion (according to Enficld) that " All fixed bodies, when heated beyond a certain degree, emit light and shine; and this emission is performed by the vibrating motion of their parts." "The heat of a warm...
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