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Caneva Robert Mayer and the Conservation of Energy
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 1747, 464 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7281-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Introduction
Pt. I The Man and His Work 1
Ch. 1 Mayer the Person 3
1 Mayer's Upbringing and Education 3
2 Mayer's Voyage to the Dutch East Indies 7
3 Mayer's Religiosity 8
4 Mayer's Circle of Friends 14
5 Mayer's Character 16
Ch. 2 Mayer's Work 18
1 Mayer's Earliest Presentation of His Ideas 19
1.1 "On the Quantitative and Qualitative Determination of Forces" 19
1.2 "Remarks on the Forces of Inanimate Nature" 23
2 The Leading Ideas and Peculiarities of Mayer's Work 25
2.1 Force 25
2.2 Neutralization of Differences: The Continued Importance of Chemical Analogs 33
2.3 Causality and the Laws of Thought 35
2.4 Quantitative Thinking and the Measure of the Equivalence of Heat and Motion 37
2.5 The Measure of Force 38
2.6 Mayer's Restriction of His Ideas to Inanimate Nature and His Allowance for the Creation of Force Out of Nothing 41
2.7 Force as an Antidote to Materialism 43
2.8 The Search for Valid Analogies 46
Pt. II Establishing the Relevant Context 47
Ch. 3 Physiology and Medicine 49
1 Blood, Respiration, and Animal Heat 49
2 Sources of Organic Activity 68
2.1 Physical and Chemical Processes: The Organism's Connection with the External World 70
2.2 Vital Forces and the Soul: The Organism's Internal Sources of Activity 79
3 Leading Analogies 125
3.1 The Relationship between the Imponderables, Vital Force, and the Soul 126
3.2 Organisms as Machines 142
3.3 The Solar System as a Living Organism 145
4 Physiology as an Opponent of Materialism 150
5 Homeopathy 152
Ch. 4 Physics and Chemistry 160
1 Force 161
1.1 The Parallelogram of Forces and Central-Force Motion 168
1.2 Catalytic, Contact, and Electrochemical Forces 173
2 Imponderables and the Nature of Heat 184
2.1 Thermal Expansion of Gases and Related Phenomena 192
3 Matter 194
4 Metamorphosis, Neutralization, and Indifference: The Chemical and Physical Contexts 198
Ch. 5 Science Circumscribed 207
1 The Nature and Scope of Science 208
2 Religion and Spiritualism 219
Pt. III Mayer's Work in Context 231
Ch. 6 A Contextual Reconstruction of the Development of Mayer's Ideas 233
1 Through the Publication of His 1842 Paper 235
2 Later Developments and Changing Emphases 259
Ch. 7 Mayer and Naturphilosophie 275
1 The Leading Characteristics of Naturphilosophie 282
2 Force and Forces in Naturphilosophie 287
2.1 Vital Force 299
3 Respiration and Animal Heat 304
4 Echoes of Naturphilosophie in Mayer's Work? 309
Ch. 8 Assessment and Conclusions 320
Appendix One: Timeline of Robert Mayer's Life and Work 329
Appendix Two: Courses Mayer Took at the University of Tubingen, 1832-37 332
Appendix Three: The German Text of the Longer Passages Quoted from Manuscript 335
Notes 341
Bibliography 395
Index 425
