Water, which is a very fluid tasteless Salt, she changes by Heat into Vapour, which is a sort of Air, and by Cold into Ice, which is a hard, pellucid, brittle, fusible Stone; and this Stone returns into Water by Heat, and Vapour returns into Water by... The Philosophical and Theological Works of ... - Page 141by John Hutchinson - 1749Full view - About this book
| Robert Boyle - Chemistry - 1725 - 768 pages
...by cold, " into ice ; which is a hard, pellucid, M fufible, brittle ftone ; and this ftone re" turns into water by heat ; and vapour " returns into water by cold. Earth, by " hear, becomes fire ; and, by cold, reи turns into earth. Dcnfe bodies, by fer" mentation, rarify... | |
| Isaac Newton - Light - 1730 - 403 pages
...changes by Heat into Vapour, which is a fort of Air, and by Cold into Ice, which is a hard, pellucid, brittle, fufible Stone; and this Stone returns into...Water by Cold. Earth by Heat becomes Fire, and by Cold returns into Earth. Denfe Bodies by Fermentation rarify into feveral forts of Air, and this Air... | |
| Robert Boyle - 1738 - 964 pages
...a hard, pcllu• .•• ••_ I •;• • . '. . . cid, fufible, brittle flone ; and this Hone returns into water by heat ; and vapour returns into water by cold. Earths by heat, becomes fire ; . and, by cold, returns into earth. . Denfe bodies, by fermentation,... | |
| Hippocrates - Medicine - 1849 - 496 pages
...heat into vapour, a sort of air; and by cold into ice, which is a hard, pellucid, brittle, fusible stone, and this stone returns into water by heat,...water by cold. Earth, by heat, becomes fire, and by cold returns into earth." 2 1 Op. cit., iv. I may further mention that all the late researches of chemical... | |
| William Robert Grove - Force and energy - 1855 - 300 pages
...into vapour, which is a sort of air, and by cold into ice, which is a hard, pellucid, brittle, fusible stone, and this stone returns into water by heat, and vapour returns into water by cold. • • • And, among such various and strange transmuta• LIGHT. 149 tions, why may not nature change... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - Force and energy - 1865 - 512 pages
...into vapour, which is a sort of air, and by cold into ice, which is a hard, pellucid, brittle, fusible stone, and this stone returns into water by heat, and vapour returns into water by cold. * * And, among such various and strange transmutations, why may not nature change bodies into light,... | |
| James Jeans - 488 pages
...into vapour, which is a sort of air ; and by cold into ice, which is hard, pellucid, brittle, fusible stone ; and this stone returns into water by heat, and vapour returns into water by cold.. ..Eggs grow from insensible magnitudes, and change into animals ; tadpoles, into frogs ; and worms,... | |
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