Helmholtz and the conservation of energy : contexts of creation and reception /
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| Author / Creator: | Caneva, Kenneth L., author. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2021] |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12733185 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
