Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science

Case 2 The Overthrow of the Phlogiston Theory The Chemical Revolution of 1775-1789, in Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Sciences, 2 vols. (Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1957), 1 65-115. 

Conant, J. B., Introduction , in J. B. Conant and L. K. Nash (eds). Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science (Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1957), pp. vii-xvi. 

Other useful sources of historical information are The Early Development of the Concepts of Temperature and Heat The Rise and Decline of the Caloric Theory by D. Roller in Volume 1 of Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science edited by J.B. Conant and published by Harvard University Press in 1957 articles in Physics Today, such as A Sketch for a History of Early Thermodynamics by E. Mendoza (February, 1961, p.32), Carnot s Contribution to Thermodynamics by M.J. Klein (August, 1974, p. 23) articles in Scientific American and various books on the history of science. Of special interest is the book The Second Law by P.W. Atkins published by Scientific American Books, W.H. Freeman and Company (New York, 1984) which contains a very extensive discussion of the entropy, the second law of thermodynamics, chaos and symmetry. 

Nash, Leonard K. (1957). The Atomic-Molecular Theory. In Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science, Vol. 1, ed. James Bryant Conant. Cambridge, AIA Harvard University Press. 

Nash, L. K. (1966). The atomic molecular theory. In J. B. Conant (Ed.), Harvard case histories in experimental science (pp.215-321). Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press. 

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