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Calorimetry and the Caloric Theory of Heat, the Measurement of Heat

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A Treatise of Heat and Energy

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Joseph Black distinguished between the quantity of heat in a body and its intensity, or temperature , which was introduced in Chap. 1. This chapter introduces calorimetry, the measurement of the quantity of heat , and the contemporary theory of heat, the caloric theory of heat . Development of calorimetry and the caloric theory was the beginning of the quantitative study of heat , and the important stepping stone toward the mechanical theory of heat, the idea that heat is a form of energy.

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    Lin-Shu Wang

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Wang, LS. (2020). Calorimetry and the Caloric Theory of Heat, the Measurement of Heat. In: A Treatise of Heat and Energy. Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05746-6_2

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