 | William Newton - 1862 - 420 Seiten
...are we children of the sun. "Without food, we should soon oxidize our own bodies. A man weighing 150 Ibs. has 64 Ibs. of muscle ; but these, when dried,...work, for 80 days, this mass of muscle would be wholly oxidized. Special organs which do more work would be more quickly oxidized: the heart, for example,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 500 Seiten
...are we children of the sun. Without food we should soon oxidize our own bodies. A man weighing 150 Ibs. has 64 Ibs. of muscle ; but these, when dried,...work, for 80 days, this mass of muscle would be wholly oxidized. Special organs which do more work would be more quickly oxidized : the heart, for example,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 Seiten
...we children of the sun. Without food we should soon oxidize our own bodies. A man weighing 1501bs. has 64 Ibs. of muscle; but these, when dried, reduce...work, for 80 days. this mass of muscle would be wholly oxidized. Special organs which do more work would be more quickly oxidized : the heart, for example,... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1863 - 608 Seiten
...A man, weighing 1501bs., has 641bs. of muscle ; but these, when dried, reduce themselves to 151bs. Doing an ordinary day's work for 80 days, this mass of muscle would be wholly oxidized." While this theory was being established, Dr. Joule has, by a very ingenious mechanical contrivance,... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1863 - 602 Seiten
...bodies. A man, weighing lo0Ibs., has 641bs. of muscle; but these, when dried, reduce themselves to 151bs. Doing an ordinary day's work for 80 days, this mass of muscle would be wholly oxidized." While this theory was being established, Dr. Joule has, by a very ingenious mechanical contrivance,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1864 - 484 Seiten
...the sun. Without food we should soon oxidize our own bodies. A man weighing 150 Ibs. has 64 Ibs.'of muscle ; but these, when dried, reduce themselves...work, for 80 days, this mass of muscle would be wholly oxidized. Special organs which do more work would be more quickly oxidized : the heart, for example,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1865 - 496 Seiten
...A man weighing 150 lbs. has 64 lbs. of muscle ; but these, when dried, reduce themselves to 15 lbs. Doing an ordinary day's work, for 80 days, this mass of muscle would be wholly oxidized. Special organs which do more work would be more quickly oxidized : the heart, for example,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1866 - 492 Seiten
...A man weighing 150 lbs. has 64 lbs. of muscle ; but these, when dried, reduce themselves to 16 lbs. Doing an ordinary day's work, for 80 days, this mass of muscle would be wholly oxidized. Special organs which do more work would be more quickly oxidized : tho heart, for example,... | |
 | 1868 - 596 Seiten
...muscle; but these, when diried, reduce themselves to 15 Ibs. During an ordinary day's work, for eighty days, this mass of muscle would be wholly oxidised....Special organs which do more work would be more quickly oxidized: the heart, for example, if entirely unsustained, would be oxidized in about a week. Take... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1879 - 522 Seiten
...muscle ; but these, when dried, reduce themselves to 15 pounds. Doing an ordinary day's work, for eighty days, this mass of muscle would be wholly oxidised....Special organs which do more work would be more quickly consumed : the heart, for example, if entirely unsustained, would be oxidised in about a week. Take... | |
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Alpine climber, are all cases of mechanical energy drawn from the sun. Not, therefore, in a poetical, but in a purely mechanical sense, are we children of the sun. Without food we should soon oxidize our own bodies. 
