Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Warming Buildings by Hot Water: On Ventilation, and the Various Methods of Distributing Artificial Heat, and Their Effects on Animal and Vegetable Physiology, to Which Are Added, an Inquiry Into the Laws of Radiant and Conducted Heat, the Chemical Constitution of Coal, and the Combustio The various inquiries addressed to the Author from time to time, have led to the conclusion that fuller information on certain subjects treated in this work would be desirable, and it has been his endeavour to supply this information in the present edition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.