List of Illustrations | p. ix |
Series Foreword | p. xiii |
Preface | p. xv |
Introduction | p. xvii |
Heat in the Early Modern Era | p. 1 |
The Rise and Fall of the Caloric Theory | p. 25 |
The Motive Power of Fire: Sadi Carnot and the Origins of Thermodynamics | p. 47 |
The Mechanical Equivalent of Heat | p. 71 |
Energy and Entropy: The Birth of Thermodynamics | p. 93 |
The Kind of Motion We Call Heat: The Development of the Kinetic Theory of Gases | p. 119 |
Black Bodies, Free Energy, and Absolute Zero | p. 147 |
Conclusion | p. 165 |
Timeline | p. 169 |
Glossary | p. 175 |
Bibliography | p. 183 |
Index | p. 193 |
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