| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - This was an early insight into the second law of thermodynamics.Carnot based his views of heat partially on the early 18th century Newtonian hypothesis" that both heat and light were types of indestructible forms of matter, which are attracted and repelled by other matter, and partially on the contemporary views of Count Rumford who showed in 1789 that heat could be created by friction as when ca
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