 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1850 - 398 pages
...examination. Several experimental facts appear nearly inexplicable in the actual state of this theory." Since the time when Carnot thus expressed himself,...before they ought to be admitted, as they usually are, by almost every one who has worked on the subject, whether in combining the results of experimental... | |
 | Philip Mirowski - Business & Economics - 1991 - 468 pages
...generated by mechanical processes clashed directly with the doctrine Thomson had imbibed from Carnot that "heat is a substance, invariable in quantity,...incapable of being generated by any physical agency" (quoted in Steffens 1979, p. 108). Thomson had already published mathematical studies of heat based... | |
 | Crosbie Smith - Science - 1998 - 424 pages
...experimental basis of the theory of heat has become more and more urgent', especially with regard to 'all those assumptions depending on the idea that...incapable of being generated by any physical agency'. That Thomson had not committed himself to this material theory of heat is evidenced by his cautious... | |
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Several experimental facts appear nearly inexplicable in the actual state of this theory." 7. Since the time when Carnot thus expressed himself, the necessity of a most careful examination of the entire experimental basis of the theory of heat has become... 