Lexicographical Neighbors of Calorists
Literary usage of Calorists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theory of Heat by Thomas Preston (1904)
"Explanation of the calorists.—That heat is developed by friction and percussion
was well known to the supporters of the caloric theory, and accounted for by ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"To complete the refutation of the calorists' explanation of the heat produced
... This experiment afforded a very direct refutation of the calorists' view, ..."
3. Mechanics, Molecular Physics and Heat: A Twelve Weeks' College Course by Robert Andrews Millikan (1903)
"With Black and his followers, the so-called calorists, heat was an ... The calorists,
definition of the heat unit has, however, been retained in its ..."
4. The Realities of Modern Science: An Introduction for the General Reader by John Mills (1919)
"The calorists, however, considered that there was a hidden store of the fluid
which was released when steam condensed and called the amount per gram the ..."
5. Applied Thermodynamics for Engineers by William Duane Ennis (1913)
"The calorists avoided this difficulty by assuming the existence of a ... The notion
of the calorists was that the different specific heats of bodies were ..."
6. The Thermal Measurement of Energy: Lectures Delivered at the Philosophical by Ernest Howard Griffiths (1901)
"When heat was developed by friction, part of the material was rubbed into powder
and the calorists insisted that the capacity for heat of the powder was ..."
7. Elements of Fuel Oil and Steam Engineering: A Practical Treatise Dealing by Robert Sibley, Charles Henry Delany (1921)
"But these scientists or calorists, as they were called, ... The calorists assumed
that the friction or rubbing of a body with the hand for instance, ..."
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