VII. An enquiry concerning the nature of heat, and the mode of its communication

Abstract

Heat is employed in such a vast variety of different processes, in the affairs of life, that every new discovery relative to it must necessarily be of real importance to mankind; for, by obtaining a more intimate knowledge of its nature and mode of action, we shall no doubt be enabled not only to excite it with greater economy, but also to confine it with greater facility, and direct its operations with more precision and effect