Block by Block: The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Thermodynamics

Introduction
Part 1 The Big Bang
1: The Big Bang: the science
2: The Big Bang: the discovery
Part 2 The Atom
3: The Atom: the science
4: The Atom: the discovery
Part 3 Energy and Conservation Laws
5: The science
6: Motion prior to Galileo
7: Galileo and the Law of Fall
8: Newton and the Laws of Motion
9: The lever
10: The rise of 1/2 mv2
11: Bernoulli and Euler unite Newton and Leibniz
12: The conservation of mechanical energy
13: Heat
14: Joseph Black and the rise of heat capacity
15: Lavoisier and the birth of modern chemistry
16: The rise of the steam engine
17: Caloric
18: The ideal gas
19: The final steps to energy and its conservation
20: Julius Robert Mayer
21: James Joule
22: The 1st Law of Thermodynamics
23: Epilogue: The mystery of beta decay
Part 4 Entropy and the Laws of Thermodynamics
24: The science
25: The piston
26: England and the steam engine
27: The Newcomen engine
28: James Watt
29: Trevithick, Woolf and high-pressure steam
30: Sadi Carnot
31: Rudolph Clausius
32: William Thomson
33: The creation of thermodynamics
34: Clausius and the road to entropy
35: J. Willard Gibbs
36: Gibbs' 3rd paper
37: Practical applications of Gibbs' theories
38: Dissemination of Gibbs' work
39: The 2nd Law, entropy and the chemists
40: Clausius - the kinetic theory of gases
41: Maxwell - the rise of statistical mechanics
42: Boltzmann - the probabilistic interpretation of entropy
43: Shannon - entropy and information theory
Part 5
Conclusion
Acknowledgements and Bibliography

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