Heat and Kinetic Theory in 19th-Century Physics Textbooks: The Case of Spain

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2000-02-22

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0002042v1

Science & Education 10 (3), 307-319 (2001)

Physics

Physics and Society

15 pages (LaTex), 1 figure (jpg) To be published in Science & Education

Scientific paper

10.1023/A:1008753114497

Spain was a scientifically backward country in the early 19th-century. The causes were various political events, the War of Independence, and the reign of Fernando VII. The introduction of contemporary physics into textbooks was therefore a slow process. An analysis of the contents of 19th-century Spanish textbooks is here presented, centred on imponderable fluids, the concept of energy, the mechanical theory of heat, and the kinetic theory of gases.

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