The Rumford fund of the American academy of arts and sciences

American Academy Of Arts And Sciences

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UC-NRLF II BTS B 3 IDS It, 51905 IN DavidsonGeorge 1825-1911 THE RUMFORD FUND AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. THE RUMFORD FUND OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY THE ACADEMY. 1905. Qll THE RUMFORD FUND Count wasTHOMPSON, Rumford, born at MarchMassachusetts, 26, 1753,Woburn,BENJAMIN and died at 1814.Auteuil, France, 21,August his he showed an intense interest inDuring boyhood scientific matters and attended scientific lectures at Harvard Afterwards he studied medicine,College. he and school at Con-neverthough practised, taught New He was ofcord, Hampshire. suspected being to the of in the War of thecauseunfriendly liberty and on the evacuation of Boston theRevolution, by British in 1776 he went toMarch, England. Here he various scientific andresearches,prosecuted a inwas elected Fellow of the 1779.Royal Society Maxi-He entered the of Princesubsequently employ milian of to whom he was ofBavaria, service,great the social re-army,reorganizing instituting important and at the same time valuable scien-forms, prosecuting tific researches. Of these the most was hisnoteworthy well-known into the cause of the heatinvestigation which he dis-friction,produced by by conclusively the of the fluid nature of andheat,proved hypothesis laid an in the the doc-stone foundation ofimportant trine of the conservation of aHe was createdenergy.

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• Nombre de lectures: 4
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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