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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (22400)	7/20/2008 3:42:12 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 36921

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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (22400)	7/20/2008 3:43:46 PM
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It's not only Monkton who has been undeservedly cast into the shadows by general academia. Pierre Prévost looks to have had a tough time of things too. Now I am no dedicated student of the history of science, so I've had to add a little between the lines here.... answers.com There he was (Pierre), nicely settled in an academic position in Berlin, proposing that "frigoric" didn't exist, when some joker came up with a dastardly design for an experiment that "proved" the existence of frigoric !!!!!!!! ============================================================ "More impressively, if two concave mirrors are arranged so that they face each other and a piece of ice is placed at one focus and a thermometer at the other, then the indicated temperature will fall. Experiments like this readily lent themselves to the interpretation that the fluid frigoric can be emitted and reflected" ============================================================ The results were impressive. Poor Pierre must have worn out about a dozen quills a week trying to fend off attacks on his theory "there was no Frigoric, only Caloric". In the Berlin Cafes of the time he probably had to overhear being the butt of many jokes on "Swiss Science", and "how flows of Calorific lowered temperatures", with much jovial laughter and banter at his expense . I don't know what happened to him, probably pushed aside by some German guy with local contacts and an advanced degree in "Frigoric Analysis". Only many hundreds of years later was the dust brushed off his work and placed on it's rightful shelf titled "Thermodynamics".