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Undersögelse om de almindelige Naturkræfter og deres gjensidige Afhængighed og i særdeleshed om den ved visse faste Legemers Gnidning udviklede Varme [Survey on the Universal Forces of Nature and their Mutial Dependence and especially about the Heat t... - [THE EXPERIMENTS THAT ESTABLISHED THE PRESERVATION OF ENERGY]
Copenhagen. 1850. 4to. Uncut and unopened. No wrappers. Plates loose. Very nice and clean. Pp. (121) - 188 + four plates.
First edition of these absolutely fundamental papers, by the (co-)discoverer of the principle of Conservation of Energy, prove Colding's assumption of ""the imperishability of nature"" and present for the first time in printing his elaborate experiments on the subject, contributing significantly to the cementation of his version of the principle of Conservation of Energy. Ludvig August Colding (1815 - 1888) was a famous Danish engineer and physicist. He was originally educated as a carpenter but graduated as mechanical engineer in 1841. In 1845 he became water-inspector in Copenhagen and in 1847 he was also given the responsibility of the gas- and waterworks. Together with the famous chemist Julius Thomsen, he proved that the cholera spread throughout Copenhagen through the drinking water (1853) - a most significant discovery. After this he was responsible replacing much of the sewer-system of Copenhagen. In 1857 he became state engineer. During this period he overhauled the desperately inadequate water and sanitation system. He articulated the principle of conservation of energy contemporaneously with, and independently of, James Prescott Joule and Julius Robert von Mayer though his contribution was largely overlooked and neglected.His work on the power of water-stem in the steam engine is considered one of his most significant.The principle of Conservation of Energy was discovered and proven independently and practically simultaneously by Colding, Meyer, Joule, and Helmholtz. As the other three, Colding had discovered the principle in the early 1840'ies, but up until 1843 (where he publishes his first breakthrough article on the subject), Colding's experiments had suggested that no force seems to be disappearing but merely undergoes a transformation, whereupon it becomes effective in other forms. On H.C. Oersted's recommendation (Colding was Oersted's assistent in their experiments with the heating of compressed water), however, Colding carried out a more elaborate version of his experiments, which made him able to verify his assumption that led to his principle of Conservation of Energy with much greater certainty. These new results were reported at the 1847 meeting of Scandinavian Scientists and published in 1850 as the two first papers present here.Mayer's famous ""Bemerkungen über das mechanische Aequivalent der Wärme"" was published a year after Colding's papers, 1851.
Naturvidenskabelige Betragtninger over Slaegtskabet mellem det aandelige Livs Virksomheder og de almindelige Naturkraefter. [i.e. ""Scientific Reflections on the Relationship between the Intellectual Life's Activity and the General Forces of Nature""]. - [PRESENTATION-COPY]
Copenhagen, 1856. 8vo. Bound with the original blank glitted front wrapper in contemporary boards with cloth back-strip. Stamp to title-page. A bit of overall wear and minor brown-spotting. 15 pp.
Rare first edition, presentation-copy, of colding's highly interesting first work on the philosophical and religious aspects of his discovery of the principle of conservation of energy, which is of importance for his discussions of joule's experiments and for his priority dispute with mayer, independently of and simultaneusly with both of whom he discovered the principle of conservation of energy. Presentation inscription from the author (""Hr. Generalmajor v. Schlegel / ærbødigt fra A. Colding"") [i. e. ""Mr. General Major v. Schlegel / Yours faithfully A. Colding""] to verso of the original front wrapper.Ludvig August Colding (1815 - 1888) was a famous Danish engineer and physicist. He was originally educated as a carpenter but graduated as mechanical engineer in 1841. In 1845 he became water-inspector in Copenhagen and in 1847 he was also given the responsibility of the gas- and waterworks. Together with the famous chemist Julius Thomsen, he proved that the cholera spread throughout Copenhagen through the drinking water (1853) - a most significant discovery. After this he was responsible for replacing much of the sewer-system of Copenhagen. In 1857 he became state engineer. During this period he overhauled the desperately inadequate water and sanitation system. He articulated the principle of conservation of energy contemporaneously with, and independently of, James Prescott Joule and Julius Robert von Mayer though his contribution was largely overlooked and neglected.""The Philosophical and religious side of Colding's thesis was first elaborated in his cumbersome treatise of 1856, ""Naturvidenskabelige Betragtninger over Slaegtskabet mellem det aandelige Livs Virksomheder og de almindelige Naturkraefter"" (""Scientific Reflections on the Relationship between the Intellectual Life's Activity and the General Forces of Nature""), his last paper on this topic to the Danish Society of Sciences"" it was published on the occasion of his being elected member of the Society. It stressed his own philosophical conviction and dwelt at length on the relationship between the material and the spiritual in nature, clearly echoing the intellectual and aesthetic influence of Oersted and in a tone reminiscent of Kant and Schelling. This paper is also of interest for Colding's discussions of Joule's experiments, with which he was acquainted by then, and for his passionate priority dispute with Mayer."" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 15 & 16, s. 86)
