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Energy 1600-1850
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Gottfried Leibniz
Leibniz was born in 1646 and died in 1716 he was a Greman philosopher and mathematician, He is well known for his discoveries and contributions to calculus but also helped scientist with energy. Studying law at the University of Leipzig and this is where he recieved a well acredited education.
He named the movement of the Newton's cradle vis viva a Latin word meaning living force. Also he was the first to bring up kinetic and gravitaional energy. He believed this thing called vis viva was heat. -
Joseph Black
Joseph was born in 1728 and died in 1799, he studied medicine for a while but soon returned to chemistry and sciences. He never got married and focused always on his discoveries and expeiriments. Believing that heat was an invisible fluid that flowed from hot to cold things naturally. He named this Caloric fluid, he was mistaken in this though because heat does not flow it is the transfer of thermal energy from hot to cold objects. -
Benjamin Thompson- Count Rumford
Benjamin was born in 1753 and died in 1814, he served in the war and also spied for the british. He married a rich widow named Sarah Walkr and they lived in Rumford. Rumford proved the Caloric theory wrong by showing that if you were to continue boring into the cannon it would continue to produce more and more heat, thus showing that heat is produced and does not flow. -
James Prescott Joule
Joule was born in 1818 and died in 1889, he was an English physist and lived in Salford. He married Amelia Grimes in1847 and when he was on his honeymoon he continued his experiments. Arguing that heat was just a form of energy he portrayed further experimenting to fully prove his theory. His one experiement showed how when you have a stationary block and a moving one that the stationary gains energy in the form of heat wheras the first block looses kinetic energy.
