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The Concepts and Logic of Classical Thermodynamics as a Theory of Heat Engines - Rigorously Constructed upon the Foundation Laid by S. Carnot and F. Reech (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977)
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The Concepts and Logic of Classical Thermodynamics as a Theory of Heat Engines - Rigorously Constructed upon the Foundation Laid by S. Carnot and F. Reech (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977)
Series: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
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Mon but n'a jamais be de m'occuper des ces matieres comme
physicien, mais seulement comme /ogicien ... F. REECH, 1856 I do
not think it possible to write the history of a science until that
science itself shall have been understood, thanks to a clear,
explicit, and decent logical structure. The exuberance of dim,
involute, and undisciplined his torical essays upon classical
thermodynamics reflects the confusion of the theory itself.
Thermodynamics, despite its long history, has never had the benefit
of a magisterial synthesis like that which EULER gave to hydro
dynamics in 1757 or that which MAXWELL gave to electromagnetism in
1873; the expositions in the works of discovery in thermodynamics
stand a pole apart from the pellucid directness of the notes in
which CAUCHY presented his creation and development of the theory
of elasticity from 1822 to 1845. Thermodynamics was born in
obscurity and disorder, not to say confusion, and there the common
presentations of it have remained. With this tractate I aim to
provide a simple logical structure for the classical thermodynamics
of homogeneous fluid bodies. Like any logical structure, it is only
one of many possible ones. I think it is as simple and pretty as
can be."
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