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Robert Mayer and the Conservation of Energy
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Full Title:
Robert Mayer and the Conservation of Energy
Contributors:
By (Author) Kenneth L. Caneva
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
19th May 2015
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
531.6092
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
464
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Weight:
624g
Description
The principle of the conservation of energy was among the most important developments of nineteenth-century physics, and Robert Mayer, a physician from a small city in Germany, was one of its codiscoverers. As ship's doctor on a voyage to the Dutch East Indies in 1840, Mayer noticed that the venous blood he let from a European seaman was lighter th
