An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature and Propagation of Heat

Title

An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature and Propagation of Heat

Subject

Leslie Family
Heat--Radiation and absorption.
Temperature measurements.

Description

Page of book

Creator

Leslie, Sir John

Publisher

London : Printed for J. Mawman

Date

1804

Contributor

Harvard University
HathiTrust

Rights

In the public domain

Format

JPEG

Extracted Text

AN INQUIRY INTO 98 of ascertained by help a lighted taper. parative results are exhibited The com in the following table. Reflecting Substance. Effect. - Brass - - Tinfoil - -85 - Planished block tin - Tinfoil softened by the sion of quicksilver, with A plate of glass, a a coat 60 affu and brilliant surface - 50 substituted in the place of those metallic ones, produced With 7° - - - Lead 80 - - Steel 100 -go - Silver • an effect of about of wax or oil, the action did not 10. ex ceed 5. These few trials exhibit a notable diversity of effects. But the subject might be prosecuted much farther : and I may observe, that it is not necessary that the plates should either be circular or of equal dimensions; because tinfoil can al ways serve as a standard of comparison, and a coat

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Collection

Clan Leslie

Citation

Leslie, Sir John, “An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature and Propagation of Heat,” Digital Exhibits, accessed May 3, 2024, https://digex.lib.uoguelph.ca/items/show/1658.

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