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  • Rumford's Theory of Heat: A Reassessment

  • Stephen J. Goldfarb
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 10 / Issue 1 / March 1977
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 25-36
    Print publication:
    March 1977

  • As a natural philosopher, Count Rumford is best known for his vehement advocacy of a motion or mechanical hypothesis of heat and for the dramatic experiments that he performed to support this hypothesis. Although a motion hypothesis which held that heat was merely the motion of the ultimate particles of a body had a distinguished history, with advocates that included Bacon, Boyle, Hooke, and Newton, most British natural philosophers by the beginning of the nineteenth century believed that the phenomena associated with heat were caused by an imponderable fluid. William Henry reflected contemporary opinion in 1803, when he wrote:

    The former of these opinions [i.e. the existence of caloric], though far from being universally admitted, is now generally received; and the peculiar body, to which the phenomena of heat are referred, has been denominated by M. Lavoisier [as] caloric.

  • BJH volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 10 / Issue 1 / March 1977
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    05 January 2009, pp. f1-f4
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    March 1977
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  • The Ohm-Seebeck Dispute, Hermann von Helmholtz, and the Origins of Physiological Acoustics

  • R. Steven Turner
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 10 / Issue 1 / March 1977
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    05 January 2009, pp. 1-24
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    March 1977

  • The term ‘Ohm's law’ traditionally denotes the formula of Georg Simon Ohm relating voltage, current, and resistance in metallic conductors. But to students of sensory physiology and its history, ‘Ohm's law’ also denotes another relationship: the fundamental principle of auditory perception that Ohm announced in 1843. This aspect of Ohm's science has attracted very little attention, partly because his galvanic researches so thoroughly eclipsed it in success and importance, and partly because Ohm's work in physiological acoustics had so little immediate impact on the science of his time. On announcing his hypothesis in 1843, Ohm found himself drawn into a bitter dispute with the physicist August Seebeck, who successfully discredited the hypothesis and forced Ohm to withdraw from the field.

  • BJH volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 10 / Issue 1 / March 1977
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. b1-b2
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    March 1977
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