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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... PAGE to exist, the mechanical laws may be deduced, yet in any physical conception of the nature of heat the expansion by cold has always been a great stumbling-block to me, and I believe to many others. Dulong and Petit, and Regnault. See their Memoirs abstracted and referred to in Gmelin's Handbook of Chemistry, translated by Watts for the Cavendish Society, vol. i. p. 242 et seq. 65. Wood, Phil. Mag. 18.51, 1852. 67. Senarmont, Conduction of Heat by Crystals (Gmelin's Handbook, vol. i. p. 222). 68. Knoblauch, Ann. de Ch. et de Ph. vol. xxxvi. p. 124. Tindall, Transmission of Heat through Organic Structures (PhiL Trans. voLcxliii. p. 217). 71. Grove, Electricity produced by approximating Metals: Report of a Lecture at the London Institution (Literary Gazette, 1843, p. 39). Gassiot, Phil. Mag. October 1844. Roget, On the Improbability of the Contact exciting Force: Treatise on Galvanism (Library of Useful Knowledge, S. 113). Faradat, PhiL Trans. 1840, p. 126. 73. Melloni, Sur la Polarisation de la Chaleur: Recherches sur plusieurs Phenomenes calorifiques (Annales de Chimie et de Ph. torn. xlv. pp. 5- 68; torn. xli. pp. 375-410; torn, xlviii. pp. 198, 218). Forbes, On the Refraction and Polarisation of Heat (Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. xiii. pp. 131, 168). 75. Kirchoff Trans. Berlin Acad. 1861. Balfour Stewart on the theory of Exchanges (Report British Association, 1861). 77. T. Wedgwood, On the Production of Light and Heat by different Bodies (Phil. Trans. voL lxxxii p. 272). 81. Grove, On the Decomposition of Water into its Constituent Gases by Heat (Phil. Trans. 1847, p. 1). PAGE Robinson, On the Effect of Heat in lessening the Affini- ties of the Elements of Water (Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, ...