The Work Of Leslie Is Particularly Confusing. The
Mischievous Muse Of Thermodynamics Made Him Inweave His Simple
Statements About Heat In A Horrid Mess Of Difficul
The work of Leslie is particularly confusing. The
mischievous muse of thermodynamics made him inweave his simple
statements about heat in a horrid mess of difficult,
irrelevant, and unexplained calculations. His and other early
theories of heat make much of entities as imperceptible as
voids and vortices or, for that matter, angels. They belong
not to physics but to what would now be regarded as
speculative philosophy.
-- Clifford Truesdell
