Excerpt from The Animal: As a Machine and a Prime Motor, and the Laws of Energetics We see that in the beginning there entered upon an existence of indefinite duration a great universe of matter endowed with its characterizing attributes - the forces. These forces, acting upon a definite quantity of matter with definite intensity, give origin to a fixed amount of actual energy, and become capa ble of producing another fixed quantity of what is now potential energy. Energy thus brought into exist ence remains constant in ...
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Excerpt from The Animal: As a Machine and a Prime Motor, and the Laws of Energetics We see that in the beginning there entered upon an existence of indefinite duration a great universe of matter endowed with its characterizing attributes - the forces. These forces, acting upon a definite quantity of matter with definite intensity, give origin to a fixed amount of actual energy, and become capa ble of producing another fixed quantity of what is now potential energy. Energy thus brought into exist ence remains constant in total amount as the quantity of created matter remains constant. The action of these forces upon this matter has given rise to every phenomenon which has come, or which can come, within the range of scientific inquiry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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