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A History of the Cultural Travels of Energy - From Aristotle to the OED (Hardcover)
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A History of the Cultural Travels of Energy - From Aristotle to the OED (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
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This book offers a cultural history of the travels of energy in the
English language, from its origins in Aristotle’s ontology, where
it referred to the activity-of-being, through its English usage as
a way to speak about the inherent nature of things, to its adoption
as a name for the mechanics of motion (capacity for work). A
distinguished literature deals with energy as matter of science
history. But this literature fails to adequately answer a
historical question about the rise of the science of energy: How
did the commonplace word ‘energy’ end up becoming a concept in
science? This account differs in important ways from the history of
the word in the Oxford English Dictionary. Discovering the origins
and early travels of energy is essential for understanding how the
word was borrowed into physics, and therefore a cultural history of
energy is a necessary companion to the science history of the term.
It is important that modern scholars in a variety of fields be
aware that energy did not always have a scientific content. The
absence of that awareness can lead to, have led to, anachronistic
interpretations of energy in historical sources from before the
1860s. A History of the Cultural Travels of Energy will be useful
for those interested in the history of science and technology,
cultural history, and linguistics.
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