How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Stephen Wolfram
JANUARY 31, 2023
But by the mid-1600s the idea was emerging that there could be more explicit and mechanical explanations for phenomena in the natural world. By 1807 the term “energy” had been introduced, but the question remained of whether it could in any sense globally be thought of as conserved. But in plenty of situations it wasn’t.
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