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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 0-262-36383-6 , 0-262-36384-4

Series Statement: Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology

Content: "Exhaustive history of Helmholtz's work on the conservation of energy and its broad acceptance"--

Note: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Introduction -- 1. Helmholtz's Self-Described Principal Concerns -- The Impossibility of a Perpetuum Mobile -- Heat as a Form of Motion-Including a Molecular-Mechanical Ontology and a Reductionist Physiology -- The Source of Animal Heat -- The Illegitimacy of a Vital Force -- Rational Mechanics and the Conservation of Vis Viva -- Causality, Epistemology, and the Nature of Force -- 2. The Broader Context -- Chemical and Physical Equivalents -- The Nature of Heat -- The Source of Animal Heat-and Motion -- The Role and Legitimacy of a Vital Force -- The Steam Engine as Metaphor -- Rational Mechanics and the Conservation of Vis Viva -- From Leibniz to Daniel Bernoulli -- From d'Alembert to Duhamel -- The Relationship of Mechanics to Physics -- The Impossibility (or Not) of Perpetual Motion and of the Indefinite Creation of Force -- Causality, Epistemology, and the Nature of Force -- The Changing Character of Physiology -- 3. More Immediate Contexts: Johannes Müller and Justus Liebig -- 4. The Problematic Introduction to On the Conservation of Force and the Question of Kantian Influence -- 5. The Emergence of Helmholtzian Conservation of Force -- 6. What Helmholtz Believed He Had Accomplished -- 7. The Reception of On the Conservation of Force: The First Ten Years -- Immediate and Local Responses -- The Situation in Königsberg -- German Physiologists' Responses -- Responses Farther Afield: Danish and Dutch Scientists -- Focused Responses for Broader German and Danish Audiences -- Helmholtz among the British -- Helmholtz and William Thomson -- Helmholtz and Macquorn Rankine -- Other British Connections and Mutual Influences -- 8. Helmholtz and the Conservation of Force in Poggendorff's Annalen through 1865 and in the Fortschritte der Physik through 1867. , 9. Helmholtz's Place in the Acceptance of the Conservation of Energy -- Helmholtz's Terminology over Time -- Helmholtz's Presentation of the Conservation of Energy over Time -- Helmholtz's Low Public Profile in the Late 1850s -- Helmholtz Acquires a Place in the Popularization of the Conservation of Energy -- Citation, Engagement, and Implicit Influence, 1858-1860 -- The Conservation of Energy Becomes a Matter of Contention in Britain, 1862-1864-without Helmholtz -- The Status of the Conservation of Energy and Its Ascription to Helmholtz: Focused Critiques -- Some of Physicists' Principal Concerns, ca. 1870-1900 -- Arguments in Terms of the Impossibility of Constructing a Perpetuum Mobile -- The Relationship between the Conservation of Energy and the Conservation of Vis Viva -- The Conservation of Energy between Physics and Mechanics -- Ontological Considerations -- Methodological Considerations -- Causality and the Conservation of Energy -- Forging a Concept of Force-as-Energy -- Forces as Quantitatively Indestructible and Qualitatively Changeable -- Forces as Expendable -- Forces as Substantial Entities -- Helmholtz's Place in the Adoption of the Conservation of Energy in Textbooks and Monographs -- Works in English -- Works in German -- Works in French -- 10. Helmholtz's Relationship to Robert Mayer -- Encounters and Responses -- Methodological Issues: Mayer and Metaphysics -- Methodological Issues: Helmholtz and Mayer as Proxies -- 11. Reflections, Assessment, and Conclusions -- Historiographical Excursus: How Others Have Interpreted Helmholtz's Achievement -- Appendix: Magnus's Letter of 1858 to Alexander von Humboldt -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Historiographical Excursus. , Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Bibliography of Secondary Sources -- Index.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-262-04573-7

Language: English