Abstract
THE caloric theory of heat as developed by Carnot in his famous “Reflexions on the Motive Power of Heat” (Paris, 1824) leads immediately to the correct solution of the relations between heat and motive power (energy or work) in all reversible processes, and appears to be in some respects preferable to the mechanical theory as a method of expression, because it emphasises more clearly the distinction, first clearly stated by Carnot, between reversible and irreversible transformation*, and because it directly provides the natural measure of a quantity of heat as distinct from a quantity of thermal energy.
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