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In 1852 Kelvin1 had presented his ideas on irreversible processes, which he claimed to be “necessary consequences” of his “axiom” about “inanimate material agency” (above, §9B).
Lo nostro scender conviene esser tardo, sì che s’ausi un poco in prima il senso al tristo fiato; e poi no i fia riguardo.
Dante, Inferno XI, 10–12.
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Truesdell, C.A. (1980). Orthodox Act V. Kelvin’s Absolute Temperatures. Clausius’ Second Paper: Irreversibility and Oracling. In: The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854. Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, vol 4. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9444-0_11
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