Note 760 — Chapter V · (continued 2)
Reading edition
‘Fluidity is the consequence of a certain combination of calorific matter with the substance of solid bodies,’ &c. Black's Lectures, vol. i. p. 133. Compare p. 192, and the remarks in Turner's Chemistry, 1847, vol. i. p. 31, on Black's views of the ‘chemical combination’ of heat. Among the backward chemists, we still find traces of the idea of heat obeying chemical laws.