The caloric theory is an obsolete scientific theory that heat consists of a self-repellent fluid called caloric that flows from hotter bodies to colder...

to explain James Joule's observations within a caloric framework as late as 1850. The caloric theory was largely obsolete by the end of the 19th century...

The calorie is a unit of energy that originated from the caloric theory of heat. The large calorie, food calorie, dietary calorie, or kilogram calorie...

Function of Color. Isis, 34(5), 404–407. Brown, Sanborn C. (1967), "The Caloric Theory", Men of Physics: Benjamin Thompson – Count Rumford, Elsevier, pp. 16–24...

was a direct challenge to the caloric theory which held that heat could neither be created nor destroyed. Caloric theory had dominated thinking in the...

Energeticism – a theory that attempted to reinterpret all chemistry in terms of energy, rejecting the concept of atoms. Caloric theory – the theory that a self-repelling...

formulation, which preceded the proper definition of entropy and was based on caloric theory, is Carnot's theorem, formulated by the French scientist Sadi Carnot...

setting aside old, incorrect paradigms (e.g., aether theory of light propagation, caloric theory of heat, burning consisting of evolving phlogiston, or...

he stood by phlogiston and tried to make the theory work. Caloric theory – Obsolete scientific theory of heat flow Pneumatic chemistry – Very first studies...

between QH and QC, since he was using the incorrect hypothesis that caloric theory was valid, and hence heat was conserved (the incorrect assumption that...