Talk:History of thermodynamics
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[edit] Aristotle spoke Greek
In c.350 BC, Aristotle proclaims, in opposition to Leucippus, the dictum horror vacui or “nature abhors a vacuum”. "dictum horror vacui" is Latin, not Greek. I doubt that Aristotle ever proclaimed anything in Latin, let alone even heard of the language. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.194.150.50 (talk) 02:54, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Creation
Yes - History should have its separate article. PAR 06:55, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
No, I checked mathematics, physics, and biology, and they all have a history section; some have a small history section and then a link to the full article, but they all have a history section. Furthermore, I wrote this history section, not because I was so inclined but rather because if you look on the thermodynamics discussion page, there is a request by someone to create a 'history section'. Hence, a small history section on the main thermodynamics article is good (as people seem to want one), and a full article on a separate page is good as well. --Wavesmikey 17:17, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
- Of course. Karol 17:49, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] More work
Yeah, this article needs some more work. I moved one image from thermodynamics of the engine (kind of historical) and formatted things a bit. Karol 07:35, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
- I added in the "short history of thermodynamics", cleaned the intro, and put some good history external links in. It's starting to feel tighter. Later: --Sadi Carnot 16:04, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Parmenides
"Parmenides uses verbal reasoning to postulate that a void, essentially what is now known as a vacuum, in nature could not occur. This statement was disproved conclusively, approximately two-thousand years later, when Otto von Guericke built a vacuum pump,"
This is conjecture (influenced by modern concepts) regarding the meaning of an ancient text, whose real meaning has been lost to us.
Secondly, a vacuum is not a void but the absence of ponderable matter in space. Space in the absence of matter has properties, is an ether not a void/nothingness/non-existence. To suggest that Parmenides was describing such is to impose a modern world-view on his text. Its invention. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.40.19.180 (talk) 21:47, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
