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William Thomson and the heritage of caloric

Pages 511-520 | Received 01 Jun 1995, Published online: 18 Sep 2006

  • Carnot , Sadi . 1824 . Réflexions sur la Puissance Motrice du Feu et Sur les Machines propres a Déveloper cette Puissance Paris Translation by R. H. Thurston (1890) republished in Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire by Sadi Carnot and Other Papers on the Second Law of Thermodynamics by E. Clapeyron and R. Clausius, edited by E. Mendoza (New York, 1960), 1–59 [hereafter Mendoza, Reflections]. French version republished in Sadi Carnot: Réflexions sur la Puissance Motrice du Feu. Edition critique avec introduction et commentaire, augmenté de documents d'archives et de divers manuscrits de Carnot, par Robert Fox, edited by Robert Fox (Paris, 1978), 55–179; translation published as Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (A Critical Edition with the Surviving Scientific Manuscripts) (New York, 1986).
  • Thomson , William . 1849 . An Account of Carnot's Theory of the Motive Power of Heat; With Numerical Results Deduced from Regnault's Experiments on Steam . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 16 : 541 – 574 . [hereafter Thomson, ‘An Account’]. Republished in The Second Law of Thermodynamics, edited by J. Kestin (New York, 1976) [hereafter Kestin, The Second Law], 59–86.
  • Clapeyron , Emile . 1834 . Memoir on the Motive Power of Heat . Journal de École Polytechnique , 14 : 153 – 190 . Translated by E. Mendoza, Reflections, 71–105.
  • Klein , Martin J. 1974 . Carnot's Contribution to Thermodynamics . Physics Today , 27 : 23 – 28 . [hereafter Klein, ‘Carnot's Contributions’].
  • Clausius , Rudolf J.E. 1850 . On the Motive Power of Fire and the Laws of the Theory of Heat, Which are Deduced from It . Annalen der Physik und Chemie , 79 : 368 – 397 . 500–24 [hereafter Clausius, ‘On the Motive Power’]. Translated in Philosophical Magazine, 4th series, 2 (1951), 1–21, 102–19. English translation by W. F. Magie (1899) republished in Mendoza, Reflections, 107–52.
  • Thomson , William . 1851 . On the Dynamical Theory of Heat, with Numerical Results Deduced from Mr. Joule's Equivalent of a Thermal Unit, and M. Regnault's Observation . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 20 : 261 – 268 . 289–98 [hereafter Thomson, ‘On the Dynamical Theory’]. Republished in Kestin, The Second Law, 106–32.
  • Thomson , William . 1852 . On a Universal Tendency in Nature to the Dissipation of Mechanical Energy . Philosophical Magazine , 4 : 304 – 306 . 4th series [hereafter Thomson, ‘On a Universal Tendency’]. Republished in Kestin, The Second Law, 194–7.
  • Clausius , Rudolf J.E. 1854 . On Another Form of the Second Principle of the Mechanical Theory of Heat . Annalen der Physik und Chemie , 93 : 481 – 506 . [hereafter Clausius, ‘On Another Form’]. Translated in Philosophical Magazine, 4th series, 12 (1856), 81–98.
  • Dias , Penha M.C. 1994 . “ A Path From Watt's Engine to the Principle of Heat Transfer ” . In Logic and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala Edited by: Prawitz , Dag and Werterstàhl , Dag . 425 – 438 . Dordrecht
  • Dias , Penha M.C. , Pinto , Simone P. and Cassiano , Deisemar H. 1995 . The Conceptual Import of Carnot's Theorem to the Discovery of the Entropy . Archive for History of Exact Sciences , 49 : 135 – 161 . [hereafter Dias et al., ‘The Conceptual Import’].
  • Klein . 1977 . ‘Carnot's Contribution’. Crosbie W. Smith, ‘William Thomson and the Creation of Thermodynamics: 1840–1855’ . Archive for History of Exact Sciences , 16 : 231 – 288 . [hereafter Smith, ‘William Thomson’].
  • Harman , Peter M. 1982 . Energy, Force and Matter: The Conceptual Development of Nineteenth-Century Physics Cambridge [hereafter Harman, Energy, Force and Matter].
  • Truesdell , Clifford A. 1980 . The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics: 1822–1854 New York
  • Daub , Edward . 1970 . Entropy and Dissipation . Studies in the History of Physical Sciences , 2 : 321 – 354 . Stephen G. Brush, The Kind of Motion We Call Heat, 2 vols (Amsterdam, 1976) [hereafter Brush, The Kind of Motion].
  • Harman . Energy, Force and Matter 56 – 56 .
  • Smith . William Thomson
  • Harman . Energy, Force and Matter 57 – 57 .
  • Thomson . An Account 64 – 65 .
  • et al. The Conceptual Import
  • Thomson . On the Dynamical Theory 117 – 117 .
  • From the draft of On the Dynamical Theory published in Smith, ‘William Thomson’; 281.
  • Thomson . On the Dynamical Theory 110 – 110 .
  • Thomson . On the Dynamical Theory 117 – 117 .
  • Thomson . On the Dynamical Theory 121 – 121 .
  • Thomson . On a Universal Tendency 194 – 194 .
  • From the draft of ‘On the Dynamical Theory’, published by Smith William Thomson 288 288
  • Thomson . On a Universal Tendency 195 – 195 .
  • Thomson . On a Universal Tendency 195 – 195 .
  • Thomson . On a Universal Tendency 195 – 195 .
  • Daub . Entropy and Dissipation 348 – 348 .
  • Brush . The Kind of Motion , II 571 – 571 .
  • Clausius . On the Motive Power
  • Clausius . On Another Form
  • et al. The Conceptual Import
  • Thomson . An Account 74 – 74 .
  • Thomson . On the Dynamical Theory 109 – 109 .
  • Thomson . On the Dynamical Theory 109 – 109 . my italics
  • et al. The Conceptual Import
  • Harman . Energy, Force and Matter 57 – 57 .
  • et al. The Conceptual Import

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