Re: T#1

["Derek Chirnside" <ChirnsideD@mars.shirley.school.nz>]

> I think I need a good thermo history book.  Any recommendations???
> I have Magie's book, but he is quite clinical.  I need a good coherent story.
>
> Jim.Green@Snow.edu

I've just been taking a paper in the "History of Science" - really 
interesting, but I feel quite ignorant sometimes on some of the 
subtlties.  It seems often events occur (my Essay has been on 
Galileo's method and newton's method . .) and some biographers (an 
even historians) DO NOT properly read the original works - and 
stories and ideas get slanted, simplified and even wrongly recorded 
and interpreted.
It may be so on the present subject.
However there are some journals specifically releted to the "History 
of Science"  They are a strange breed, the people who work here.  My 
lecturer for example has a marvellous grasp of some of the debates 
and developments up to Newton.  Quite opened my eyes.
As some have said, textbooks are often quoting other sources, and are 
in some cases very misleading at best.
Encarta gives NO names in terms of the discovery of any of the 'Laws' 
of Thermodynmaics.

Next time I see my lecturer I'll check re the T laws history.

Derek.


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