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- catalog abstract "Although we take it for granted today, the concept of "energy" transformed nineteenth-century physics. In The Science of Energy, Crosbie Smith shows how a North British group of scientists and engineers, including James Joule, James Clerk Maxwell, William and James Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin, and P. G. Tait, developed energy physics to solve practical problems encountered by Scottish shipbuilders and marine engineers to counter biblical revivalism and evolutionary materialism and to rapidly enhance their own scientific credibility. Replacing the language and concepts of classical mechanics with terms such as "actual" and "potential" energy, the North British group conducted their revolution in physics so astutely and vigorously that the concept of "energy"--a valuable commodity in the early days of industrialization--became their intellectual property. Smith skillfully places this revolution in its scientific and cultural context, exploring the actual creation of scientific knowledge during one of the most significant episodes in the history of physics.".
- catalog contributor b11324800.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "Although we take it for granted today, the concept of "energy" transformed nineteenth-century physics. In The Science of Energy, Crosbie Smith shows how a North British group of scientists and engineers, including James Joule, James Clerk Maxwell, William and James Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin, and P. G. Tait, developed energy physics to solve practical problems encountered by Scottish shipbuilders and marine engineers to counter biblical revivalism and evolutionary materialism and to rapidly enhance their own scientific credibility. Replacing the language and concepts of classical mechanics with terms such as "actual" and "potential" energy, the North British group conducted their revolution in physics so astutely and vigorously that the concept of "energy"--a valuable commodity in the early days of industrialization--became their intellectual property. Smith skillfully places this revolution in its scientific and cultural context, exploring the actual creation of scientific knowledge during one of the most significant episodes in the history of physics.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [356]-385) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction : a history of energy -- From design to dissolution : Scotland's Presbyterian cultures -- Recovering the motive power of heat -- Mr Joule of Manchester -- Constructing a perfect thermo-dynamic engine -- 'Everything in the material world is progressive' -- 'The epoch of energy' : the new physics and the new cosmology -- The science of thermodynamics -- North Britain versus metropolis : territorial controversy in the history of energy -- Newton reinvented : Thomson and Tait's Treatise on natural philosophy -- Gentleman of energy : the natural philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell -- Demons versus dissipation -- Energy and electricity : 'the apparatus of the market place' -- Sequel : Transforming energy in the late nineteenth century.".
- catalog extent "xi, 404 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226764206 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0226764214 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "621.042 21".
- catalog subject "Force and energy History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Power (Mechanics) History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Power resources History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "QC72 .S58 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : a history of energy -- From design to dissolution : Scotland's Presbyterian cultures -- Recovering the motive power of heat -- Mr Joule of Manchester -- Constructing a perfect thermo-dynamic engine -- 'Everything in the material world is progressive' -- 'The epoch of energy' : the new physics and the new cosmology -- The science of thermodynamics -- North Britain versus metropolis : territorial controversy in the history of energy -- Newton reinvented : Thomson and Tait's Treatise on natural philosophy -- Gentleman of energy : the natural philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell -- Demons versus dissipation -- Energy and electricity : 'the apparatus of the market place' -- Sequel : Transforming energy in the late nineteenth century.".
- catalog title "The science of energy : a cultural history of energy physics in Victorian Britain / Crosbie Smith.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".