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A History of the Cultural Travels of Energy: From Aristotle to the OED: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

Autor Peter Hjertholm
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 oct 2024
This book offers a cultural history of the travels of energy in the English language, from its origins in Aristotle’s ontology, where it referred to the activity-of-being, through its English usage as a way to speak about the inherent nature of things, to its adoption as a name for the mechanics of motion (capacity for work).
A distinguished literature deals with energy as matter of science history. But this literature fails to adequately answer a historical question about the rise of the science of energy: How did the commonplace word ‘energy’ end up becoming a concept in science? This account differs in important ways from the history of the word in the Oxford English Dictionary. Discovering the origins and early travels of energy is essential for understanding how the word was borrowed into physics, and therefore a cultural history of energy is a necessary companion to the science history of the term. It is important that modern scholars in a variety of fields be aware that energy did not always have a scientific content. The absence of that awareness can lead to, have led to, anachronistic interpretations of energy in historical sources from before the 1860s.
A History of the Cultural Travels of Energy will be useful for those interested in the history of science and technology, cultural history, and linguistics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032344461
ISBN-10: 1032344466
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Cultural History

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Academic, General, and Postgraduate

Cuprins

Part 1:THE CULTURAL ORIGINS AND TRAVELS OF ENERGY 1. Energeia, Activity-of-Being, and Inherent Nature 2. The Vernacular of Corporeal Energy 3. Energy’s Cultural Travels in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Part 2: THE MIGRATION OF ENERGY FROM CULTURE TO SCIENCE 4. Historical Accounts of the Birth of Energy in Science 5. To Understand the Motion of a Body: Thomas Young’s Pedagogical Project Part 3: THE MIGRATION OF ENERGY FROM SCIENCE BACK TO CULTURE 6. The Cultural Absorption of the Science of Energy 7. The Popularisation of the Concept of Energy 8. Energy in Modernist Writings: The Adams Brothers Part 4: ENERGY IN LEXICOGRAPHY 9. Energy in Early English Lexicography 10. Energy in the oed

Notă biografică

Peter Hjertholm holds PhD degrees in economics and history from the University of Copenhagen, where he has taught in both fields. In history, his research interests focus on slavery, black property rights, and the role of ‘energy’ in early American political discourse.

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This book offers a cultural history of the travels of energy in the English language, from its origins in Aristotle’s ontology, where it referred to the activity-of-being, through its English usage as a way to speak about the inherent nature of things, to its adoption as a name for the mechanics of motion (capacity for work).