Re: heat is a form of energy

[William Beaty <billb@ESKIMO.COM>]

On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, David Bowman wrote:

> Bill,
>
> I think you may have confused 'phlogiston' with 'caloric'.


That may be true.  I'm working from memory, and don't have any references
here about the early history of thermo.  If the old "caloric" substance is
about the same as the modern "heat-energy" substance, then I should have
been saying "caloric" instead of "phlogiston".


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