Experiments and observations on animal heat, and the inflammation of combustible bodies : being an attempt to resolve these phenomena into a general law of nature / by A. Crawford, M.D. F.R.S. L. and E. and member of the philosophical societies of Dublin and Philadelphia.

  • Crawford, Adair, 1748-1795.
Date:
1788
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Credit: Experiments and observations on animal heat, and the inflammation of combustible bodies : being an attempt to resolve these phenomena into a general law of nature / by A. Crawford, M.D. F.R.S. L. and E. and member of the philosophical societies of Dublin and Philadelphia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    O P CO NTENTS. Page DIFFERENT notions of heat - i Abfolute and relative heat - ^ 2 Senfible heat, temperature comparative heat - 3 Capacities for containing heat - 7 Fire - - - - 12 General faSis -refpeSfing Heat, I. Tendency to difFufe itfelf - 13 II. The quantity of heat in a body limited - 14 III. The quantity of heat in a homogeneous body of a given temperature is as its bulk - 17 IV, The variations in the quantity of abfolute heat in a homogeneous body, while it retains its form, are nearly proportional to its varia- tions of temperature, as meafured by a mercurial thermometer - 18 V, The capacities of bodies for containing heat are nearly permanent while they retain their form - - 53 The regularity with which bodies give off heat, when placed in a cold medium, ex- plained from the permanence of their capacities - - 65