Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics

by Bruce Clarke

This book follows the interplay between allegory and physics in Europe from the inception of the laws of thermodynamics in the 1850s to the cultural acceptance of the theory of relativity in the 1920s. Bruce Clarke delves into the cultural poetics of this emergence, as well as using allegory theory to link the literature of that era to the consolidation of modern physics in England. In his examination of these correlating topics the author displays...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472111744
• ISBN13: 9780472111749
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"