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Machine generated contents note: 1. Helmholtz's Self-Described Principal Concerns -- The Impossibility of a Perpetuum Mobile -- Heat as a Form of Motion -- Including a Molecular-Mechanical Ontology and a Reductionist Physiology -- The Source of Animal Heat -- The Illegitimacy of a Vital Force -- Rational Mechanics and the Conservation of Vis Viva -- Causality, Epistemology, and the Nature of Force -- 2. The Broader Context -- Chemical and Physical Equivalents -- The Nature of Heat -- The Source of Animal Heat -- and Motion -- The Role and Legitimacy of a Vital Force -- The Steam Engine as Metaphor -- Rational Mechanics and the Conservation of Vis Viva -- From Leibniz to Daniel Bernoulli -- From d'Alembert to Duhamel -- The Relationship of Mechanics to Physics -- The Impossibility (or Not) of Perpetual Motion and of the Indefinite Creation of Force -- Causality, Epistemology, and the Nature of Force -- The Changing Character of Physiology -- 3. More Immediate Contexts: Johannes Muller and Justus Liebig -- 4. The Problematic Introduction to On the Conservation of Force and the Question of Kantian Influence -- 5. The Emergence of Helmholtzian Conservation of Force -- 6. What Helmholtz Believed He Had Accomplished -- 7. The Reception of On the Conservation of Force. The First Ten Years -- Immediate and Local Responses -- The Situation in Konigsberg -- German Physiologists' Responses -- Responses Farther Afield: Danish and Dutch Scientists -- Focused Responses for Broader German and Danish Audiences -- Helmholtz among the British -- Helmholtz and William Thomson -- Helmholtz and Macquorn Rankine -- Other British Connections and Mutual Influences -- 8. Helmholtz and the Conservation of Force in Poggendorff's Annalen through 1865 and in the Fortschritte der Physik through 1867 -- 9. Helmholtz's Place in the Acceptance of the Conservation of Energy -- Helmholtz's Terminology over Time -- Helmholtz's Presentation of the Conservation of Energy over Time -- Helmholtz's Low Public Profile in the Late 1850s -- Helmholtz Acquires a Place in the Popularization of the Conservation of Energy -- Citation, Engagement, and Implicit Influence, 1858-1860 -- The Conservation of Energy Becomes a Matter of Contention in Britain, 1862-1864 -- without Helmholtz -- The Status of the Conservation of Energy and Its Ascription to Helmholtz: Focused Critiques -- Some of Physicists' Principal Concerns, ca. 1870-1900 -- Arguments in Terms of the Impossibility of Constructing a Perpetuum Mobile -- The Relationship between the Conservation of Energy and the Conservation of Vis Viva -- The Conservation of Energy between Physics and Mechanics -- Ontological Considerations -- Methodological Considerations -- Causality and the Conservation of Energy -- Forging a Concept of Force-as-Energy -- Forces as Quantitatively Indestructible and Qualitatively Changeable -- Forces as Expendable -- Forces as Substantial Entities -- Helmholtz's Place in the Adoption of the Conservation of Energy in Textbooks and Monographs -- Works in English -- Works in German -- Works in French -- 10. Helmholtz's Relationship to Robert Mayer -- Encounters and Responses -- Methodological Issues: Mayer and Metaphysics -- Methodological Issues: Helmholtz and Mayer as Proxies -- 11. Reflections, Assessment, and Conclusions -- Historiographical Excursus: How Others Have Interpreted Helmholtz's Achievement. |
