Chapter ID: CBB000039039

Gibbs and the energeticists (1995)

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Description “The emergence of energetics was largely, if not entirely, a German phenomenon. Its main proponents were Georg Helm, a Dresden mathematician and physicist, and Wilhelm Ostwald, the professor of physical chemistry at Leipzig. Both thought that the world view of modern science was moving toward a comprehensive theory of energy. But, as previously noted, they disagreed about the general form that theory would take: Helm believed that it would be a phenomenalist theory, while Ostwald was convinced that it would be realist in character. Each thought, nevertheless, that the thermodynamic writings of Gibbs supported his position.”


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Authors & Contributors
Deltete, Robert J.
Klein, Martin J.
Bao, Fangxun
Cutrufello, Gabriel J.
Daub, Edward E.
Hewitt, Edwin
Journals
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Journal of Chemical Education
Proceedings of the ... International Congress of the History of Science
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Publishers
Cornell University
Yale University
Springer
Temple University
Concepts
Physics
Chemistry
Thermodynamics
Translations
Mathematics
Philosophy
People
Gibbs, Josiah Willard
Ostwald, Friedrich Wilhelm
Helm, Georg Ferdinand
Boltzmann, Ludwig
Driesch, Hans Adolf Eduard
Heaviside, Oliver
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Eastern Europe
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