From heat to thermal science : a history of thermodynamics / Gary D. Patterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patterson, Gary D. (Gary David), 1946- author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost

Series:

Perspectives on the history of chemistry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thermodynamics--History.

Thermodynamics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 232 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2025]

Contents:

Introduction: The Concept of Heat and Boyles Natural History of Cold

Temperature and Thermometers: The Development of the Concept of Temperature and the Invention of Laboratory Thermometers

Herman Boerhaave: The Natural History of Fire (Heat)

Joseph Black: Towards an Experimental Foundation of Thermodynamics

Antoine Lavoisier: Mmoire sur La Chaleur (1780) Presented and Critiqued by Clifford Truesdells The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics 1822-1854 (1980)

Sadi Carnot: Rflexions sur la Puissance Motrice du Feu et sur les Machines Propre a Dvelopper cette Puissance (1824)

James Joule: The Foundation of the Experimental Science of Energy

Victor Regnault: Quantitative Science of the Thermodynamics of Gases

William Rankine: The Chemical Engineering of Heat

Lord Kelvin: Gathering the Pieces and Creating Thermodynamics

Rudolph Clausius: The Mechanical Theory of Heat (1867,1879) and the Formulation of the Laws of Thermodynamics

Josiah Willard Gibbs: The Complete Theory of Thermodynamics

James Clerk Maxwell: Towards a Microscopic Theory of Heat

Ludwig Boltzmann: The Creation of the Full Theory of Statistical Thermodynamics and Kinetics

John Tyndall: Infrared Radiation as Heat

Walther Nernst: Experimental and Theoretical Applications of Thermodynamics to Chemistry (1907) and The New Heat Theorem (1917)

Max Planck: Towards a Quantum Understanding of Heat

Albert Einstein: The Invention of the Full Theory of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics

Leon Brillouin: Solid State Physics and the Importance of Phonons

Max Born: The Importance of Phonons and Electrons in the Science of Heat

Thermal Conductivity in the 21st Century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 6, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Patterson, Gary D. From Heat to Thermal Science

ISBN:

9783031996764

3031996763

Publisher Number:

90102710619

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