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On a Suggestion Concerning the Work of J. P. Joule

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

E. Mendoza  and
D. S. L. Carowell
E. Mendoza
Affiliation:
Israel Science Teaching Centre, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
D. S. L. Carowell
Affiliation:
Dapartment of the History of Science and Technology, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD.
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Extract

A recently published book, James Prescott Joule and the concept of energy, by H. J. Steffens, includes a chapter entitled ‘Conjectures on J. R. Mayer and J. P. Joule’. In it the author raises an intriguing possibility.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , July 1981 , pp. 177 - 180
Copyright
Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1981

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References

NOTES

We are grateful to Cambridge University Library for permission to quote from letters in the Kelvin-Stokes Collection.

1 Steffens, Henry John, James Prescott Joule and the concept of energy, New York, 1979. (For a review of this book, see pp. 217–19, below; Ed).Google Scholar

2 It is in the collection of Joule documents in the custody of the Department of the History of Science and Technology, UMIST.

3 The Lenz paper is in Annalen der Phsik, 1843, 59. 203–39 407–19Google Scholar. The others are by De la Rive, ibid., p. 420, and by Pambour, ibid., pp. 587–93. No published translation of Mayer's paper into English appeared in the period 1843–49.

4 The sketch is almost invisible in the microfilm which Steflens used, though it shows up clearly on xerox copy.

5 Philosophical magazine, 1843, 23, 263–76, 347–55, 435–43.Google Scholar

6 Philosophical magazine, 1856, 11. 447–8Google Scholar. The original letter is referred to in Wilson, D. B., Catalogue of the Stokes and Kelvin Collections, Cambridge, 1976, as J64.Google Scholar

7 Comptes rendus. 1848, 27, 385–7.Google Scholar

8 Comptes rendus, 1849, 28, 132–5Google Scholar. This paper does not appear in Joule's Collected Papers.

9 Op. cit. (6), J66.

10 Op. cit. (6), J77.