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searching for Caloric theory 6 found (164 total)

Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (990 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

water wheel due to a waterfall (chute d'eau). Despite the fact that the caloric theory of heat was incorrect, Carnot's work brought together three insights

Museum Autovision (242 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

physics experiments under real conditions. Topics include: Mechanics Caloric theory (Calorifics) Optics and acoustics Magnetism Electricity Electrochemistry

Siméon Denis Poisson (4,390 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sophisticated, if speculative, description of gases based on the old caloric theory of heat, to which younger scientists such as Poisson were less committed

Disgregation (1,760 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

start of thermodynamics and signals the slow transition from the older caloric theory to the newer kinetic theory, in which heat is a type of energy in transit

Robert Fox (historian) (1,367 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

and contributor. Some of his works include: Fox, Robert (1971). The caloric theory of gases: from Lavoisier to Regnault. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198581314

Mathematics, science, technology and engineering of the Victorian era (8,295 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

early twenty-first century. During the 1830s and 1840s, traditional caloric theory of heat began losing favour to "dynamical" alternatives, which posit