...Thermometer. Is not the Heat of the warm Room convey'd through the Vacuum by the Vibrations of a much fubtiler Medium than Air, which after the Air was drawn out...remained in the Vacuum ? And is not this Medium the fame with that Medium by which Light is refradted and reflected, and by whofe Vibrations Light communicates....

...therefore, ' faid he, ' of a warm room conveyed through the vacuum by the vibrations of a much Subtler medium than air, which, after the air was drawn out, remained in the vacuum ? ' Again, he fays, ' Doth not the refrattion of light proceed from the different denfities of this...

...warm almost as soon as a thermometer which is not in vacuo. Is not the heat of a warm room therefore conveyed through the vacuum by the vibrations of a...after the air was drawn out, remained in the vacuum ?" (Quœry 18). Again, " Doth not the refraction of light proceed from the diffèrent densities of...

...optic nerve to the brain, cause the sense of seeing. The heat of a warm room is conveyed through a vacuum by the vibrations of a much subtiler medium than air, which, after the air is drawn out, remains in the vacuum. It is by the vibrations of this medium that light is refracted...

...optic nerve to the brain, cause the sense of seeing. The heat of a warm room is conveyed through a vacuum by the vibrations of a much subtiler medium than air, which, after the air is drawn out, remains in the vacuum. It is by the vibrations of this medium, that light is refracted...

...optic nerve to the brain, cause the sense of seeing. The heat of a warm room is conveyed through a vacuum by the vibrations of a much subtiler medium than air, which, after the air is drawn out, remains in the vacuum. It is by the vibrations of this medium, that light is refracted...

...two little thermometers be suspended, BO as not to touch the vessels, and the air be drawn out of one of these vessels, and these vessels, thus prepared,...remained in the vacuum ? and is not this medium the same with that medium by which light is reflected and refracted ? And do not hot bodies communicate their...

...two little thermometers be suspended, so as not to touch the vessels, and the air be drawn out of one of these vessels, and these vessels, thus prepared,...remained in the vacuum ? And is not this medium the same with that medium by which light is refracted and reflected ? " The conclusion which such experiments...

...soon as another in open air, takes thence " occasion to suspect, that the heat of the warm room is conveyed through " the vacuum by the vibrations of a much subtiler medium than air, " which remained in the vacuum after the air was drawn out." " Sir Isaac Newton was of opinion that the ultimate...

...warm as much, and almost as soon, as the thermometer which is not in vacuo ; and when the vessel is carried back into the cold place, the thermometer...remained in the vacuum ? And is not this medium the same by which light is refracted or reflected, and by whose vibrations light communicates heat to bodies,...