"Rudolph Clausius... noticed a common feature of nature and had the stature... to publish [in 1850, Über die bewegende Kraft der Wärme (On the motive force of heat)] what others might think a simpleton's observation: heat does not flow from a cooler to a hotter body... [I]n this and subsequent papers he developed this... into a quantitative principle..."
January 1, 1970
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