The Conquest of Bread · Character
Joule
A physicist whose work on energy is cited.
minor
First appearance: the conquest of bread
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Cited as an example of a scientist whose paper on the mechanical equivalent of heat was rejected by the Royal Society as 'unscientific,' illustrating the conservatism of official…
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With Darwin (social): Darwin and Joule were contemporaries in Victorian science, likely acquainted through the British scientific community. In IV: Cited as an example of a scientist whose paper on the mechanical…
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