Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749-1827)
subtle/imponderable fluids
action at a distance
caloric
Joseph Fourier (1768-1830)
Analytical theory of heat (1822)
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753-1814)
James Joule (1818-1889)
mechanical equivalent of heat
Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
energy, kinetic and potential
Naturphilosophie
Robert Mayer (1814-1878)
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) |
diffusion
Fourier series
vis viva (living force)
NOTE: If your course reader is missing pages from
the Joule selection, you can view them here as JPEGs: pp. 302,
303,
304,
305. |
