Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat Paperback - 1999
by Hans Christian Von Baeyer
First line
Warmth, the carrier of comfort and security for human beings, is the primary object of the study of thermodynamics.
From the jacket flap
If you want to know what's happening in the world, follow the heat.
Why can't your coffee "steal" heat from the air to stay piping hot? Why can't Detroit make a car that's 100 percent efficient? Why can't some genius make a perpetual motion machine? The answers lie in the field of thermodynamics, the study of heat, which turns out to be the key to an astonishing number of scientific puzzles, including why time inexorably runs in only one direction.
In Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat, physics professor Hans Christian von Baeyer tells the story of heat through the lives of the scientists who discovered it. With his trademark elegant prose, eye for lively detail, and gift for lucid explanation, Professor von Baeyer turns the contemplation of a cooling coffee cup into a beguiling portrait of the birth of a science with relevance to almost every aspect of our lives.
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- Title Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat
- Author Hans Christian Von Baeyer
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-06-15
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780375753725 / 0375753729
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 8.62 x 5.92 x 0.63 in (21.89 x 15.04 x 1.60 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Thermodynamics, Maxwell's demon
- Dewey Decimal Code 536
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