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Synopsis
Excerpt from Technical Thermodynamics, Vol. 1: Fundamental Laws of Thermodynamics Theory of Gases
This Introduction started with the E l a s ti c s 01 id T h e cry of Light for the purpose of showing that it is necessary to imagine the particles of the body in motion to explain the simplest heat phenomena, particularly heating by radiation.
The investigations of the properties of light - thus the Introduction began at that time - have led to the generally prevailing view that the whole universe is filled with a fine and elastic substance, ether; a substance which permeates all bodies and whose particles are in vibrating, oscillating, motion.
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