...one. Clausius has, no doubt, since extended his original statement, so as to make it stand thus: — Heat cannot of itself pass from a colder to a hotter body. We do not consider even this sufficiently obvious for an axiom, were it certainly true, but, as will...

...one. Clausius has, no doubt, since extended his original statement, so as to make it stand thus: — Heat cannot of itself pass from a colder to a hotter body. We do not consider even this sufficiently obvious for an axiom, were it certainly true, but, as will...

...hotter one. Clausius has, no doubt, since extended his original statement, so as to make it stand thus : Heat cannot of itself pass from a colder to a hotter body. We do not consider even this sufficiently obvious for an axiom, were it certainly true, but, as will...

...one. Clausius has, no doubt, since extended his original statement, so as to make it stand thus: — Heat cannot of itself pass from a colder to a hotter body. We do not consider even this sufficiently obvious for an axiom, were it certainly true, but, as will...

...merit, their correctness was here at once assailed, by the declaration that the fundamental principle, that heat cannot of itself pass from a colder to a hotter body, is untrue. To prove this two phenomena relating to electric currents are adduced. But in a rejoinder...

...all conceivable circumstances. He thereupon propounded the following as a fundamental principle : " Heat cannot, of itself, pass from a colder to a hotter body." The words - of itself,' here used for the sake of brevity, require, in order to be completely understood,...

...to a hotter body without compensation, and without the expenditure of work. The axiom of Clausius, that heat cannot of itself pass from a colder to a hotter body, and the similar axiom of Thomson, are thus only true with regard to radiations, if the velocity of...

...to a hotter body without compensation, and without the expenditure of work. The axiom of Clausius, that heat cannot of itself pass from a colder to a hotter body, and the similar axiom of Thomson, are thus only true with regard to radiations, if the velocity of...

...heated by a rooler one without the intervention of any mechanism doing work. This would te contrary to the second law of thermodynamics, that heat cannot of itself pass from a colder to a hotter body, a law which is found to hold whenever tested by direct experiment, and one which has never led to false...

...heated by a cooler one without the intervention of any mechanism doing work. This would be contrary to the second law of thermodynamics, that heat cannot of itself pass from a colder to a hotter body, a law which is found to hold whenever tested by direct experiment, and one which has never led to false...