Friday, 24 February 2012

Lord Kelvin's work

After J.P. Joule had bent the automated agnate of heat, Lord Kelvin approached the catechism from an absolutely altered point of view, and in 1848 devised a calibration of complete temperature which was absolute of the backdrop of any accurate actuality and was based alone on the axiological laws of thermodynamics. It followed from the attempt on which this calibration was complete that its aught was placed at −273.15 °C, at about absolutely the aforementioned point as the aught of the air-thermometer.7

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