Book ID: CBB000700847

Heat and Thermodynamics: A Historical Perspective (2007)

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Lewis, Christopher J. T. (Author)


Greenwood Press


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xxi + 199 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Nahin, Paul J.
McCormmach, Russell
Pellegrino, Emilio Marco
Nagels, Maxime
Alessio Brioschi
Stein, Jim
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Historia Mathematica
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
New Books Network Podcast
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Publishers
The MIT Press
Springer
Princeton University Press
Oxford University Press
Birkhäuser
Concepts
Theories of heat
Physics
Thermodynamics
Science and technology, relationships
Temperature
Molecules
People
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
Cavendish, Henry
Tyndall, John
Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Count
Regnault, Henri-Victor
Prevost, Pierre
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
Medieval
Ancient
Places
Greece
France
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