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Finally we can "hear" HIM!
At last I'm able to read Clausius' own train of thought when deriving the concept of Entropy and at last, too, the ideas made "click", for Thermodynamics is such a strange science -simply put, it uses a motor to extract a fundamental law of nature- that I had to "hear" the voice one of the original actors of the incredible mise en scene of this body of knowledge.
Up to now, I always had a strange feeling when reading about the second law: that even though I could understand it, I was unable of "making it mine", probably because I couldn't form the idea of how somebody could have thought about infinitely close Carnot engines, the obtaining of Q/T and Equivalence of Transformations, to mention a few of his concepts.
All the deductions in modern books -although based on Clausius ideas-seemed artificial. Even after devouring Cardwell'sFrom Watt to Clausius: The Rise of Thermodynamics in the Early Industrial Age (History of Science and Technology Reprint Series) my feelings didn't changed. Now, I'm relieved because I can follow him with peace of mind, knowing that there existed such a person, such a mind and such concomitant chain of thoughts.
¿Could that be done again, in the same way, in October of 2009 and beyond?
In my search of his original papers in a language that I could read (Spanish or English), the closest I had arrived was in Magie's, A Source Book in Physics (Source Books in the History of the Sciences) but to my dismay, when he presents Clausius' paper on Entropy,(page 234),just in the most important part where I was expecting to see the author's mathematical deduction,as in a surreal dream, Magie does not include them and begins straight out with "We obtain the equation..."
The Holy Grail of Understanding was once more aparted after barely seeing its shadow and I had to wait many more years to drink from it.

At long last!
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3DNU8T8PWDXUU A quick video by American chemical engineer Libb Thims on the great news that Clausius' thermodynamics textbook, The Mechanical Theory of Heat (1865), is now available as a reprint!!! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1879.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1870 edition by Gauthier-Villars, Paris. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In thermodynamics, entropy is commonly associated with the amount of order, disorder, and chaos in a thermodynamic system. This stems from Rudolf Clausius' 1862 assertion that any thermodynamic processes always admits to being reduced to the alteration in some way or another of the arrangement of the constituent parts of the working body and that internal work associated with these alterations is quantified energetically by a measure of entropy change, according to the following differential expression. In the years to follow, Ludwig Boltzmann translated these alterations into that of a probabilistic view of order and disorder in gas phase molecular systems. In recent years, in chemistry textbooks there has been a shift away from using the terms order and disorder to that of the concept of energy dispersion to describe entropy, among other theories. In the 2002 encyclopedia Encarta, for example entropy is defined as a thermodynamic property which serves as a measure of how close a system is to equilibrium as well as a measure of the disorder in the system ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius, was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics. By his restatement of Sadi Carnot's principle known as the Carnot cycle, he put the theory of heat on a truer and sounder basis. His most important paper, On the mechanical theory of heat, published in 1850, first stated the basic ideas of the second law of thermodynamics. In 1865 he introduced the concept of entropy. Clausius was born in Köslin in the Province of Pomerania. He started his education at the school of his father. After a few years, he went to the Gymnasium in Stettin. Clausius graduated from the University of Berlin in 1844 where he studied Mathematics and Physics with, among others, Heinrich Magnus, Johann Dirichlet and Jakob Steiner. He also studied History with Leopold von Ranke. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Wilhelm Röntgen, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Rudolf Virchow, Franz Brentano, Wilhelm Wien, Rudolf Clausius, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Klaus Clusius, Robert Döpel, Claus-Frenz Claussen, Johannes Stark, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Helmut Beckmann, Karl Gegenbaur, Julius Von Sachs, Adolph Strecker, Eugen Fischer, Ernst Von Bergmann, Nikolaus Friedreich, Werner Heyde, Friedrich Julius Stahl, Peter Ernst Von Lasaulx, Edwin Klebs, Adam Contzen, Carl Stumpf, Friedrich Daniel Von Recklinghausen, Roland Benz, Anton Von Troeltsch, Wilhelm Olivier Leube, Maximilian Von Frey, Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt, Franz Kiwisch Von Rotterau, Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach, Johann Joseph Scherer, Karl Bernhard Lehmann, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Georg Hermann Quincke, Gregor Kraus, Oswald Külpe, Ludwig Von Urlichs, Heinrich Bulle, Julius Jolly, Cajetan Von Textor, Eugen Enderlen, Karl Wilhelm Ernst Joachim Schönborn, Heinrich Müller, Julius Von Michel, Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni Von Lichtenfels, Heinrich Von Bamberger, Franz Von Rinecker, Richard Kretz, Josef Servas D'outrepont, Albert Von Bezold, Peter Thyraeus, Konrad Mannert, Robert Bonnet, Martin Münz. Excerpt:Adam Contzen (17 April 1571, Monschau (Montjoie), Duchy of Jülich 19 June 1635, Munich ) was a German Jesuit economist and exegete . Contzen was born in 1573, or, according to Carlos Sommervogel , in 1575. Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz gives the 1571 date listed above. Contzen entered the Society of Jesus at Trier in 1595. He was professor of philosophy in the University of Würzburg in 1606, and was transferred to the University of Mainz in 1610, where he occupied the chair of Holy Scripture for more than ten years. He had a share in the organization of the University of Molsheim, in Alsace , of which he was chancellor in 1622-23. Contzen... ... Read more