Note 6 — Chapter I · The Doctrines of Conduction and Radiation.
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The term employed by Fourier, conductibility or conducibility, suggests expressions altogether absurd, as if the bodies could be called conductible, or conducible, with respect to heat: I have therefore ventured upon a slight alteration of the word, and have used the abstract term which analogy would suggest, if we suppose bodies to be conductive in this respect.