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" ... show that heat is produced by the sun's rays only when they act on a calorific medium: they are the cause of the production of heat, by uniting with the matter of fire which is contained in the substances that are heated... "
The New American Grammar of the Elements of Astronomy: On an Improved Plan ... - Page 254
by James Ryan - 1827 - 375 pages
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Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 97

1795 - 492 pages
...heat is produced by the fun's rays only when they ail u”:oii a calorific medium ; they are the caufe of the production of heat, by uniting with the matter of fire, which is contained in the fubibnces that are heated : as the colliiion of Hint and ileel will inflame a magazine of gunpowder,...
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The British encyclopedia, or, Dictionary of arts and sciences, Volume 6

William Nicholson - 1809 - 722 pages
...scorched up at its surface. We reply, that there are many facts in natural philosophy which show that beat is produced by the sun's rays only when they act on a calorific medium: they are the cause of the production of heat by uniting with the matter of fire which is contained...
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Pocket Encyclopedia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 4

Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 476 pages
...be scorched up at its surface. We reply, that there are many facts in natural philosophy which shew that heat is produced by the sun's rays only when they act on a calorific medium : they are the cause of the production of heat by uniting with the matter of fire which is contained...
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A pocket encyclopędia, or library of general knowledge

Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 462 pages
...be scorched HJi at its surface. We reply, that there are many facts in natural philosophy which shew that heat is produced by the sun's rays only when they act on A calorific medium : they are the cause of the production of heat by uniting with the matter of fire twfcich is contained...
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Institutes of Natural Philosophy: Theoretical and Practical

William Enfield - Astronomy - 1811 - 476 pages
...scorched up at its surface : — We reply, th.it there arc m.my facts in natural philosophy which shew that heat is produced by the sun's rays only when they act on a calorifick medium : they are the cause of the production of heat by uniting with the matter of fire...
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The Gallery of Nature and Art; Or, A Tour Through Creation and Science, Volume 1

Edward T W. Polehampton - Astronomy - 1815 - 568 pages
...philosophy, which show that beat is produced by th« sun's ravs only when they act ou a calorific medium ; they are the cause of the production of heat, by uniting...which is contained in the substances that are heated : as the collison of flint and steel will inflame a magazine of gunpowder, by putting all the latent...
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The Panorama of Science and Art: Embracing the Sciences of ..., Volume 1

James Smith - Industrial arts - 1815 - 684 pages
...respect to the excessive heat at the surface of the sun, there arc many facts which show that heat U produced by the sun's rays only when they act on a calorific medium ; they produce beat by uniting with the matter of fire which is contained in the substances that are...
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The Gallery of Nature and Art: Or, a Tour Through Creation and Science, Volume 1

Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - Natural history - 1818 - 590 pages
...conception. This may be very substantially answered by many proofs drawn from natural philosophy, which show that heat is produced by the sun's rays only when they act ou a calorific medium ; they are the cause of the production of heat, bj uniting with the matter of...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopędia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 11

John Mason Good - 1819 - 742 pages
...be scorched up at its surface : we reply, that there are many facts in natural philosophy which show that heat is produced by the sun's rays only when they act on a calorific medium : they are the cause of the production of heat by uniting with ihe matter of fife which is contained...
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British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., Volume 11

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 384 pages
...scorched up at its surface j we reply, that there are many facts in natural philosophy, which show that heat is produced by the sun's rays only when they act on a calorific medium : they are the cause of the production of heat, by uniting with the matter of fire which ii contained...
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