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Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - James Prescott Joule and the Concept of Energy. By Henry John Steffens. New York: Science History Publications; Folkestone: Dawson, 1979. Pp. x + 172. $20.00/£ 10.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

David Gooding
Affiliation:
University of Bath

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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1981

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References

1 Cf. Mendoza, E. and Cardwell, D. S. L., ‘Note on a suggestion concerning the work of J. P. Joule’, pp. 177–80, above; Ed.Google Scholar

2 Forrester, John, ‘Chemistry and the conservation of energy’, Studies in history and philosophy of science, 1975, 6, 273313 (285–93).CrossRefGoogle Scholar