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1. The appropriation of a new doctrine by its contemporaries probably always takes the form of its being misunderstood and resisted by some of them. The young thermodynamics also had its opponents, whose attacks sometimes intensified to the point of passionate excitement. At the same time, many expressions of the authors championing the new doctrine turned out to be insufficiently precise; indeed, the clearly articulated version of the fundamental teachings we have just assembled is only a recent product. The essence of the matter, however, remained as it was created by Clausius in 1850.
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Helm, G. (2000). New Initiatives, Controversies and Misplaced Efforts. In: The Historical Development of Energetics. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 209. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4471-1_4
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