The Science of Energy
Subtitle: A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 26, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780226764207
Subjects: History of science; PHYSICS; c 1800 to c 1900; Energy Technology (General); Mechanics (General); Science; Science/Mathematics; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Energy; History; Science / History; Europe - Great Britain - General; 19th century; Force and energy; Power (Mechanics); Power resources
First sentence: Not Copernicus and Galilei [sic], when they abolished the Ptolemaic system; not Newton, when he annihilated the Cartesian vortices; not Young and Fresnel, when they exploded the Corpuscular Theory; not Faraday and Clerk-Maxwell, in their splendid victory over Actio in distans - more thoroughly shattered a malignant and dangerous heresy, than did Joule when he overthrew the baleful giant FORCE, and firmly established, by lawful means, the beneficent rule of the rightful monarch, ENERGY!