"Exhaustive history of Helmholtz's work on the conservation of energy and its broad acceptance"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
In 1847, Herman Helmholtz, arguably the most important German physicist of the nineteenth century, published his formulation of what became known as the conservation of energy—unarguably the most important single development in physics of that century, transforming what had been a conglomeration of separate topics into a coherent field unified by the concept of energy. In Helmholtz and the Co…