A dissertation on elective attractions / by Torbern Bergmann ; translated from the Latin by the translator of Spallanzani's dissertations.

  • Bergman, Torbern, 1735-1784. Disquisitio de attractionibus electivis. English
Date:
1785
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Credit: A dissertation on elective attractions / by Torbern Bergmann ; translated from the Latin by the translator of Spallanzani's dissertations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it. It is by no means necelTary in'this hypothefis, that the contradHon of the bulk of the air fhould always be afcri- bed to the heat palling through the glafs. There is no reafon why it may not be abforbed on particular oc- calions. C.] I acknowledge that the ^new do(d:rine concerning the diftributlon of heat is well eftablilhed in many re- fpe6ts > but as it is conne6ted with at- tradlions, it will be proper to explain with greater accuracy in what light I view it. Let the heat which we can meafure by the thermometer be called fenfible, and that which is fo fixed by the at- traction of bodies, that it cannot be indicated by the thermometer, fpecijic. For the fake of comparifon, the fpeci- fic heat of water is exprelled by unity, *to
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