The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822-1854 (Studies in the History of Mathematics and the Physical Sciences)

Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include companion materials, may have some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include CDs or access codes. 100% money back guarantee. The Producer's Apology To The Spectators -- The Common Inheritance -- Prologue: Laplace, Biot, And Poisson -- Act I. Workless Dissipation: Fourier -- Act Ii. Dissipationless Work: Carnot -- Distracting Interlude: Clapeyron And Duhamel -- Act. Iii. Equivalence, Conservation, Interconvertibility: When And Of What? -- Act Iv. Internal Energy: The First Paper Of Clausius. Entropy; The First Paper Of Rankine -- Districting Interlude: Explosion Of Print -- Schismatic Act V. Antiplot In A Dark And Empty Theatre: Reech's Discovery Of A Too General Theory, And His Failure To Reduce It -- Orthodox Act V. Clausius' Second Paper: Absolute Temperatures, Irreversibility, And Oracling -- Epilogue: Götterdämmerung. C. Truesdell. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. [341]-360.