. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London . Bti/irrji\ ffffar fn,,,..- MDCCCfflwfcXl /^ ?,;?.. C 293 1 XV. Experiments on the solar, and on the terrestrial Rays thatoccasion Heat; with a comparative View of the Laws to whichLight and Heat, or rather the Rays which occasion them, aresubject, in order to determine whether they are the same, ordifferent. By William Herschel, LL. D. F. R. S. Part May 15, 1800» 1 he word heat, in its most common acceptation, denotes acertain sensation, which is well known to every person. Thecause of this sensation, to avoid ambiguity, ough
. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London . Bti/irrji\ ffffar fn,,,..- MDCCCfflwfcXl /^ ?,;?.. C 293 1 XV. Experiments on the solar, and on the terrestrial Rays thatoccasion Heat; with a comparative View of the Laws to whichLight and Heat, or rather the Rays which occasion them, aresubject, in order to determine whether they are the same, ordifferent. By William Herschel, LL. D. F. R. S. Part May 15, 1800» 1 he word heat, in its most common acceptation, denotes acertain sensation, which is well known to every person. Thecause of this sensation, to avoid ambiguity, ought to have beendistinguished by a name different from that which is used topoint out its effect. Various authors indeed, who have treatedon the subject of heat, have occasionally added certain terms todistinguish their conceptions, such as, latent, absolute, specific,sensible heat; while others have adopted the new expressionsof caloric, and the matter of heat. None of these descriptiveappellations however would have completely answered mypurpose. I might, as in the preceding papers, have used the nameradia
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