Zur Phänomenologie der Wärme
Elemente der Naturwissenschaft
69,
1998,
P.
45-60 |
DOI:
10.18756/edn.69.45
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Abstract:
With reference to Martin Basfeld’s book «Wärme: Urmaterie und Ich-Leib», this article seeks critically to examine concepts of heat theory, including early suggestions by Goethean scientists (E. Hegelmann, G. Unger), and to rethink them from a phenomenological point of view. As regards an extensive quantity of heat or heat content, it is clear that the concept of entropy has, beyond all statistical interpretations and derivations, a central importance that can be reliably confirmed by direct observation. From this it should be noted that heat content is not a constant quantity and thus it creates special difficulties for its measurement.