Robert Mayer and the Conservation of Energy

by Kenneth L. Caneva

Book Overview

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 than he expected. This observation set off a train of reflections that led him first to conclude that there...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069108758X
• ISBN13: 9780691087580
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"