1. The Producerโs Apology to the Spectators -- Notation -- Symbols Frequently Used -- 2. The Common Inheritance -- 2A The Thermal Equation of State -- 2B The Theory of Sound in Aeriform Fluids -- 2C The Doctrine of Latent and Specific Heats -- 3. Prologue: Laplace, Biot, and Poisson -- 3A Biot, and Poissonโs First Attempt -- 3B Critique of Biotโs Theory -- 3C Laplaceโs Theory of Sound and Heat -- 3D Poissonโs Second Treatment -- 3E Meikleโs Claim -- 3F Critique of Laplaceโs and Poissonโs Theories. Correction of Meikleโs Claim -- 4. Act I. Workless Dissipation: Fourier -- 4A Fourierโs Predecessor: Biot -- 4B Fourierโs Program -- 4C Fourierโs Premisses Regarding Specific Heat and Temperature -- 4D Critique of Fourierโs Premisses -- 4E Fourierโs Concept of the Flux of Heat, and his General Differential Equation and Boundary Condition -- 4F Critique of Fourierโs Concepts and Methods -- 4G Fourierโs Theory of the Conduction of Heat in Fluids -- 4H Critique of Fourierโs Theory of the Conduction of Heat in Fluids -- 4I Fourierโs Bequest -- 5. Act II. Dissipationless Work: Carnot -- 5A The General Quality of Carnotโs Treatise -- 5B Standard Concepts and Assumptions Used by Carnot -- 5C The Carnot Cycle -- 5D Carnotโs Claim that Carnot Cycles Attain Maximum Efficiency -- 5E Formal Statement and Critique of Carnotโs Claim of Maximum Efficiency -- 5F Carnotโs Claim that the Efficiency of Carnot Cycles is Universal -- 5G Formal Statement and Elucidation of Carnotโs Claim of Universal Efficiency -- 5H Critique of Carnotโs Argument to Support Universal Efficiency -- 5I Carnotโs General and Special Axioms -- 5J Critique of Carnotโs General and Special Axioms. Scholia I-III. โCarnotโs functionโ -- 5K Carnotโs Treatment of his Cycle -- 5L Critique of Carnotโs Treatment of his Cycle. Scholion IV -- 5M Critique: Interconvertibility of Heat and Work as Implied by Carnotโs Theory. Proof that Carnotโs Cycles are Indeed the Most Efficient -- 5N Critique: Dimensional Invariance of Carnotโs Theory -- 5O Carnotโs Numerical Evaluation of the Motive Power of Heat -- 5P Critique of Carnotโs Numerical Evaluation of the Motive Power of Heat -- 5Q Carnotโs Theory of Specific Heats -- 5R Critique of Carnotโs Theory of Specific Heats -- 5S Carnotโs Attempts to Determine his Function F -- 5T Critique: Carnotโs Dilemma -- 5U Carnotโs Bequest -- 6. Distracting Interlude: Clapeyron and Duhamel -- 6A Confusion by Awkward Variables: Clapeyron -- 6B Confusion by Linearizing Everything: Duhamel -- 7. Act III. Equivalence, Conservation, Interconvertibility: When and of What? -- 7A Critique: What Did Janus See in 1842? -- 7B Mayerโs Assertion -- 7C Preliminary Critique of Mayerโs Assertion -- 7D Holtzmannโs Assertion -- 7E Preliminary Critique of Holtzmannโs Assertion -- 7F Helmholtzโs Weakest Work -- 7G Jouleโs Summary of his Early Experiments -- 7H The Bittersweet Indian Summer of the Caloric Theory: Kelvinโs First Paper -- 7I General Critique: Interconvertibility in 1849 -- 8. Act IV. Internal Energy: The First Paper of Clausius. Entropy: The First Paper of Rankine -- 8A Clausiusโ Physical Concepts and Assumptions -- 8B Logical Content of Clausiusโ First Paper -- 8C Critique: The Achievement of Clausiusโ First Paper -- 8D Critique of Clausiusโ Reasoning -- 8E Clausiusโ Comparisons with Experimental Data -- 8F Critique: Clausiusโ Bequest -- 8G Rankineโs First Paper -- 8H Critique of Rankineโs First Paper -- 9. Distracting Interlude: Explosion of Print -- 9A Rankineโs Second Paper -- 9B A Late Re-entrance, Stumbling: Kelvinโs Second Paper -- 9C A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: Reechโs Return to First Principles -- 9D Kelvinโs Analysis of the Joule-Thomson Effect and Subsidiary Details -- Appendix by C.-S. Man: The Joule-Thomson Experiment -- 9E Rankineโs Further Effusions -- 9F Kelvinโs Analysis of the โAnomalousโ Behavior of Water -- 9G General Critique: The Disastrous Effects of Experiment upon the Development of Thermodynamics, 1812-1853 -- 10. Schismatic Act V. Antiplot in a Dark and Empty Theatre: Reechโs Discovery of a Too General Theory, and his Failure to Reduce It -- 10A Reech Discovers the Pro-entropy -- 10B Reech Generalizes the Internal Energy -- 10C Reech Introduces and Analyses the Thermodynamic Potentials -- 10D Reechโs General Theory of Specific Heats -- 10E Critique: the Fatal Failure of Reechโs Analysis -- Appendix: The Later Work of Reech -- Postscript on maximum efficiency -- 11. Orthodox Act V. Clausiusโ Second Paper: Absolute Temperatures, Irreversibility, and Oracling -- 11A Kelvinโs Remarks on Dissipation -- 11B Kelvinโs Absolute Temperatures -- 11C ClausiusโTwo โLawsโ of Thermodynamics -- 11D Clausiusโ Equivalence-Value of a Transformation -- 11E Clausiusโ Application to the Doctrine of Latent and Specific Heats -- 11F ClausiusโRemarks on Irreversible Processes -- 11G Clausiusโ Determination of His Universal Function T -- 11H Critique: Empirical and Absolute Temperatures -- 11I Critique: ClausiusโโLawsโ of Thermodynamics -- 11J Critique: Irreversible Processes -- Epilogue: Gรถtterdรคmmerung -- Sources -- Index of Persons Mentioned -- Index of Matters Treated

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