{"product_id":"history-of-the-cultural-travels-of-energy","title":"History of the Cultural Travels of Energy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a cultural history of the travels of energy in the English language, from its origins in Aristotle’s ontology, where it referred to the activity-of-being, through its English usage as a way to speak about the inherent nature of things, to its adoption as a name for the mechanics of motion (capacity for work). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA distinguished literature deals with energy as matter of science history. But this literature fails to adequately answer a historical question about the rise of the science of energy: How did the commonplace word ‘energy’ end up becoming a concept in science? This account differs in important ways from the history of the word in the \u003ci\u003eOxford English Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e. Discovering the origins and early travels of energy is essential for understanding how the word was borrowed into physics, and therefore a cultural history of energy is a necessary companion to the science history of the term. It is important that modern scholars in a variety of fields be aware that energy did not always have a scientific content. The absence of that awareness can lead to, have led to, anachronistic interpretations of energy in historical sources from before the 1860s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA History of the Cultural Travels of Energy will be useful for those interested in the history of science and technology, cultural history, and linguistics. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54256679223640,"sku":"9781032344454","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032344454_843be7be-8ee8-4291-b2ac-50c2e84c2923.jpg?v=1769025637","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/history-of-the-cultural-travels-of-energy","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}