9780262045735 - helmholtz and the conservation of energy: contexts of creation and reception (transformations: studies in the history of science and technology) von caneva, kenneth l. (3 Ergebnisse)
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Zustand: as new. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2021. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xix, 735 pp. - An examination of the sources Helmholtz drew upon for his formulation of the conservation of energy and the impact of his work on nineteenth-century physics. In 1847, Herman Helmholtz, arguably the most important German physicist of the n…ineteenth century, published his formulation of what became known as the conservation of energy--unarguably the most important single development in physics of that century, transforming what had been a conglomeration of separate topics into a coherent field unified by the concept of energy. In Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy, Kenneth Caneva offers a detailed account of Helmholtz's work on the subject, the sources that he drew upon, the varying responses to his work from scientists of the era, and the impact on physics as a discipline. Caneva describes the set of abiding concerns that prompted Helmholtz's work, including his rejection of the idea of a work-performing vital force, and investigates Helmholtz's relationship to both an older generation of physicists and an emerging community of reformist physiologists. He analyzes Helmholtz's indebtedness to Johannes Müller and Justus Liebig and discusses Helmholtz's tense and ambivalent relationship to the work of Robert Mayer, who had earlier proposed the uncreatability, indestructibility, and transformability of "force." Caneva examines Helmholtz's continued engagement with the subject, his role in the acceptance of the conservation of energy as the central principle of physics, and the eventual incorporation of the principle in textbooks as established science. 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 Conservatio.
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