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Heat demons.(nature.net)(thermodynamics)
Publication: Natural History Publication Date: 01-SEP-05 Author: Anderson, Robert
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COPYRIGHT 2005 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
My interest in thermodynamics was recently rekindled while reading a copy of Basil Mahon's The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell. Outside the physics community, he has never been celebrated the way Newton or Einstein are. Yet in the mid-1800s he brought his genius to bear on an extraordinary range of problems, from the composition of Saturn's rings, to color vision, to thermodynamics--a field initially driven by the quest for more efficient steam engines. (The Web site www.clerkmaxwell foundation.org/offers a concise biography.)
I was particularly intrigued by...
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