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The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854

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  • © 1980

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  1. Clifford Ambrose Truesdell

    1. The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (HISTORY, volume 4)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. The Producer’s Apology to the Spectators

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    Pages 3-8

  3. The Common Inheritance

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    Pages 9-27

  4. Prologue: Laplace, Biot, and Poisson

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    Pages 29-46

  5. Act I. Workless Dissipation: Fourier

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    Pages 47-78

  6. Act II. Dissipationless Work: Carnot

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    Pages 79-137

  7. Distracting Interlude: Clapeyron and Duhamel

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    Pages 139-147

  8. Act III. Equivalence, Conservation, Interconvertibility: When and of What?

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    Pages 149-185

  9. Act IV. Internal Energy: the First Paper of Clausius. Entropy: the First Paper of Rankine

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    Pages 187-218

  10. Distracting Interlude: Explosion of Print

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    Pages 219-276

  11. Schismatic Act V. Antiplot in a Dark and Empty Theatre: Reech’s Discovery and Burial of a Too General Theory, and His Failure to Reduce It

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    Pages 277-303

  12. Orthodox Act V. Kelvin’s Absolute Temperatures. Clausius’ Second Paper: Irreversibility and Oracling

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    Pages 305-335

  13. Epilogue: Götterdämmerung

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    Pages 337-339

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 341-372
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    Clifford Ambrose Truesdell

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