The Science of Energy
A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain

Preface
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: a History of Energy
2. From Design to Dissolution: Scotland’s Presbyterian Cultures
3. Recovering the Motive Power of Heat
4. Mr. Joule of Manchester
5. Constructing a Perfect Thermo-dynamic Engine
6. ’Everything in the Material World is Progressive’
7. ’The Epoch of Energy’: the New Physics and the New Cosmology
8. The Science of Thermodynamics
9. North Britain versus Metropolis: Territorial Controversy in the History of Energy
10. Newton Reinvented: Thomson and Tait’s Treatise on Natural Philosophy
11. Gentlemen of Energy: the Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell
12. Demons versus Dissipation
13. Energy and Electricity: ’the Apparatus of the Market Place’
14. Sequel: Transforming Energy in the Late Nineteenth Century
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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