My latest book has now been published: From Heat to Thermal Science: A History of Thermodynamics . Springer 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Serious work on this book started at HMC in 1964! J. Arthur Campbell raised his arm and pontificated: “Let Entropy Increase”
The Snowman explained what entropy was and taught Statistical Thermodynamics.
The engineers taught that “Heat flows from a hot body to a cold body.”
The rest is “History.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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