Can you show me where you got the factoid that Joseph Black quantified thermodynamics before Carnot?
Black’s development of specific heat capacity and latent heat is widely attested, including in the Wikipedia articles on Black and on the history of thermodynamics. I don’t recall where I first saw the claim.
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Can you show me where you got the factoid that Joseph Black quantified thermodynamics before Carnot?
Black’s development of specific heat capacity and latent heat is widely attested, including in the Wikipedia articles on Black and on the history of thermodynamics. I don’t recall where I first saw the claim.