| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1845 - 594 pages
...and the dates here become very material. It appears that he wrote a letter to Dr. Priestley on 126th April, 1783, in which he reasons on the experiment...letter was received by Dr. Priestley and delivered to Sir Joseph Banks, with a request that it might be read to the Royal Society ; but Mr. Watt afterwards... | |
| Brougham and Vaux - 1845 - 560 pages
...here become very material. It appears that he wrote a letter to Dr. Priestley on 26th April, l783, in which he reasons on the experiment of burning the...letter was received by Dr. Priestley and delivered to Sir Joseph Banks, with a request that it might be read to the Royal Society ; but Mr. Watt afterwards... | |
| James Watt - 1846 - 410 pages
...process, and water, light, and heat, " are all the products. " Are we not then authorized to conclude, that water " is composed of dephlogisticated air and phlogiston, " deprived of part of their latent or elementary heat ; " that dephlogisticated or pure air is composed of " water deprived of its phlogiston,... | |
| 1846 - 352 pages
...there bo some other matter set free which escapes our senses. Are we not then authorized to conclude that water is composed of dephlogisticated air and phlogiston, deprived of part of their latent or elementary heat : that dephlogisticated or pure air is composed of water deprived of its phlogiston,... | |
| William Whewell - 1847 - 756 pages
...Lavoisier. Watt's statement of his views is as follows f : — " Are we not authorized to conclude that water is composed of dephlogisticated air and phlogiston deprived of part of their latent or elementary heat ; that dephlogisticated or pure air is composed of water deprived of its phlogiston... | |
| William Whewell - 1847 - 724 pages
...result of Cavendish's experiments to Lavoisier, at Paris. Watt's letter, containing his hypothesis that " water is composed of dephlogisticated air and phlogiston deprived of part of their latent or elementary heat ; and that phlogisticated or pure air is composed of water deprived of its phlogiston... | |
| 1847 - 584 pages
...the result of Cavendish's experiments to Lavoisier at Paris. Watt's letter, containing his hypothesis that ' water is composed of dephlogisticated air and phlogiston, deprived of part of their latent or elementary heat, and that dephlogisticated, or pure air, is composed of water deprived of its phlogiston,... | |
| 1847 - 574 pages
...8ta,tement : — " As Mr. Watt in a paper lately read before this Society, supposes water to consist of dephlogisticated air and phlogiston deprived of part of their latent heat, whereas I take no notice of the latter circumstances, it may he proper to mention in a few words the... | |
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