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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.
Tomislav Portada
Rocci, Alessio
Dais, Photis
Thorsell, David L.
Journals
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Proceedings of the ... International Congress of the History of Science
Journal of Chemical Education
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Publishers
Temple University
Yale University
Cornell University
Concepts
Physics
Chemistry
Physical chemistry
Thermodynamics
Science
Annotations and marginalia
People
Gibbs, Josiah Willard
Ostwald, Friedrich Wilhelm
Helm, Georg Ferdinand
Duhem, Maurice Marie
Wilbraham, Henry
Rowland, Henry Augustus
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
United States
Croatia
Institutions
Der Deutsche Monistenbund
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