"Let a body which satisfies these conditions be surrounded by an enclosure, having the same temperature [and kept constant], through which no heat rays can penetrate... The body sends out heat rays and is encountered by... heat rays... in part... from the enclosure, in part... thrown back... by reflection from it, absorbing a part of them. Its temperature must thus remain the same, unless heat is withdrawn from it or communicated to it as follows on the principle from which Carnot's law results. For this reason the vis viva of the rays, which it sends out in a certain time, must equal the vis viva of the rays which it absorbs in the same time."
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Gustav Kirchhoff
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
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