A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 468
ch time he proposed his theory of the molecular con-stitution of matter, now well known as the theory of molec-ular vortices. He supposes a system of whirling rings or THE HISTORY OF ITS GROWTH. 443 vortices of heat-motion, and bases his philosophy upon thathypothesis, supposing sensible heat to be… … Prof. W. J. M. Eankine. centrifugal force. He distinguished between real and ap-parent specific heat, and showed that the two methods ofabsorption of heat, in the case of the heating of a fluid, thatdue to simple increase of temperature and that due to in-crease of volume, should be distinguished ;…
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