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The nature of heat was a puzzle. Antoine Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, thought it was a fluid, which he named ‘caloric.’
Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes; yet they are usually left unchronicled.
William Ramsay
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Hay, W.W. (2016). The Origins of Climate Science—The Idea of Energy Balance
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In: Experimenting on a Small Planet. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27404-1_10
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