Author: Peter Guthrie Tait
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Category : Force and energy
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Lectures on Some Recent Advances in Physical Science
Author: Peter Guthrie Tait
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Category : Force and energy
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Category : Force and energy
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
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Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy
Author: Kenneth L. Caneva
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262363844
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 759
Book Description
An examination of the sources Helmholtz drew upon for his formulation of the conservation of energy and the impact of his work on nineteenth-century physics. In 1847, Herman Helmholtz, arguably the most important German physicist of the nineteenth century, published his formulation of what became known as the conservation of energy--unarguably the most important single development in physics of that century, transforming what had been a conglomeration of separate topics into a coherent field unified by the concept of energy. In Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy, Kenneth Caneva offers a detailed account of Helmholtz's work on the subject, the sources that he drew upon, the varying responses to his work from scientists of the era, and the impact on physics as a discipline. Caneva describes the set of abiding concerns that prompted Helmholtz's work, including his rejection of the idea of a work-performing vital force, and investigates Helmholtz's relationship to both an older generation of physicists and an emerging community of reformist physiologists. He analyzes Helmholtz's indebtedness to Johannes Müller and Justus Liebig and discusses Helmholtz's tense and ambivalent relationship to the work of Robert Mayer, who had earlier proposed the uncreatability, indestructibility, and transformability of "force." Caneva examines Helmholtz's continued engagement with the subject, his role in the acceptance of the conservation of energy as the central principle of physics, and the eventual incorporation of the principle in textbooks as established science.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262363844
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 759
Book Description
An examination of the sources Helmholtz drew upon for his formulation of the conservation of energy and the impact of his work on nineteenth-century physics. In 1847, Herman Helmholtz, arguably the most important German physicist of the nineteenth century, published his formulation of what became known as the conservation of energy--unarguably the most important single development in physics of that century, transforming what had been a conglomeration of separate topics into a coherent field unified by the concept of energy. In Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy, Kenneth Caneva offers a detailed account of Helmholtz's work on the subject, the sources that he drew upon, the varying responses to his work from scientists of the era, and the impact on physics as a discipline. Caneva describes the set of abiding concerns that prompted Helmholtz's work, including his rejection of the idea of a work-performing vital force, and investigates Helmholtz's relationship to both an older generation of physicists and an emerging community of reformist physiologists. He analyzes Helmholtz's indebtedness to Johannes Müller and Justus Liebig and discusses Helmholtz's tense and ambivalent relationship to the work of Robert Mayer, who had earlier proposed the uncreatability, indestructibility, and transformability of "force." Caneva examines Helmholtz's continued engagement with the subject, his role in the acceptance of the conservation of energy as the central principle of physics, and the eventual incorporation of the principle in textbooks as established science.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Languages : en
Pages : 854
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The Athenaeum
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
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ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
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ISBN: 9780340978504
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
The Doctor
Author: Doctor
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Monthly Bulletin of the New York Free Circulating Library
Author: New York Free Circulating Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Languages : en
Pages : 610
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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“The” Athenaeum
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Languages : en
Pages : 862
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