The Collected Works of Count Rumford

Rumford, Count

ISBN 10: 0674139526 ISBN 13: 9780674139527

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Like his countryman and contemporary Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Thompson (later Count Rumford) aimed by his inventions and scientific research to increase the degree of comfort in daily life. During the fourteen years spent in Munich, he made important reforms in the city's public service and social welfare institutions; he also introduced improvements in the hospitals and workhouses in Ireland, England, and Italy. Rumford's contributions to our knowledge of the nature of heat were as valuable as Franklin's to our knowledge of electricity. Volume I of this edition of Rumford's Works contained his papers on the nature of heat. This second volume presents Rumford's work on the practical applications of heat. Of particular interest are his papers on the propagation of heat in liquids, chimney fire-places, supplementary observations on chimney fire-places, and the management of fire and the economy of fuel. Subsequent volumes contain papers on devices and techniques, light and armament, and public institutions.

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Title: The Collected Works of Count Rumford
Publisher: Belknap Press
Publication Date: 1969
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Collected Works of Count Rumford, Volume 2: Practical Applications of Heat

Rumford, Count

Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 1969

ISBN 10: 0674139526 ISBN 13: 9780674139527

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume 2. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Edge wear. Minimal tear to jacket. Clean, unmarked pages. Sir Benjamin Thompson, count von Rumford was an American-born British physicist, government administrator, and a founder of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London. His investigations of heat overturned the theory that heat is a liquid form of matter and established the beginnings of the modern theory that heat is a form of motion. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996). Seller Inventory # 2504250001

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Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1969

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 523 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket not price clipped. NOTE: Light foxing to page edges. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding. Seller Inventory # 029974

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