The science of energy a cultural history of energy physics in Victorian Britain
Although we take it for granted today, the concept of "energy" transformed nineteenth-century physics. In The Science of Energy, Crosbie Smith shows how a North British group of scientists and engineers, including James Joule, James Clerk Maxwell, William and James Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press
1998
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- 1. Introduction: a History of Energy2. From Design to Dissolution: Scotland's Presbyterian Cultures3. Recovering the Motive Power of Heat4. Mr. Joule of Manchester5. Constructing a Perfect Thermo-dynamic Engine6. 'Everything in the Material World is Progressive'7. 'The Epoch of Energy': the New Physics and the New Cosmology8. The Science of Thermodynamics9. North Britain versus Metropolis: Territorial Controversy in the History of Energy10. Newton Reinvented: Thomson and Tait's Treatise on Natural Philosophy11. Gentlemen of Energy: the Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell12. Demons versus Dissipation13. Energy and Electricity: 'the Apparatus of the Market Place'14. Sequel: Transforming Energy in the Late Nineteenth CenturyEpilogueNotes
