Robert Mayer and the Conservation of Energy / / Kenneth L. Caneva.
The principle of the conservation of energy was among the most important developments of nineteenth-century physics, and Robert Mayer, a physician from a small city in Germany, was one of its codiscoverers. As ship's doctor on a voyage to the Dutch East Indies in 1840, Mayer noticed that the ve...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- AUTHOR'S NOTE
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I. The Man and His Work
- Chapter one. Mayer the Person
- CHAPTER TWO. Mayer'sWork
- PART I I. Establishing the Relevant Context
- CHAPTER THREE. Physiology and Medicine
- CHAPTER FOUR. Physics and Chemistry
- CHAPTER FIVE. Science Circumscribed
- PART III. Mayer's Work in Context
- CHAPTER SIX . A Contextual Reconstruction of the Development of Mayer's Ideas
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Mayer and Naturphilosophie
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Assessment and Conclusions
- APPENDIXES
- APPENDIX ONE. Timeline of Robert Mayer'S Life and Work
- Appendix Two. Courses Mayer Took at the University of Tübingen, 1832-37
- APPENDIX THREE. The German Text of the Longer Passages Quoted from M anuscript
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX