| Description |
xii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences ; 4 |
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Studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences ; 4
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| Contents |
The producer's apology to the spectators -- The common inheritance -- Prologue: Laplace, Biot, and Poisson -- Act I. Workless dissipation: Fourier -- Act II. Dissipationless work: Carnot -- Distracting interlude: Clapeyron and Duhamel -- Act. III. Equivalence, conservation, interconvertibility: when and of what? -- Act IV. Internal energy: the first paper of Clausius. Entropy; the first paper of Rankine -- Districting interlude: Explosion of print -- Schismatic Act V. Antiplot in a dark and empty theatre: Reech's discovery of a too general theory, and his failure to reduce it -- Orthodox Act V. Clausius' second paper: absolute temperatures, irreversibility, and oracling -- Epilogue: Götterdämmerung |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [341]-360 |
| Subject |
Thermodynamics -- History.
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| LC no. |
79011925 |
| ISBN |
0387904034 |
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3540904034 (Berlin) |
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