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We saw in Chap. 1 that during the last quarter of the eighteenth century and first half of the nineteenth century, conservation of mass and conservation of energy were accepted as fundamental laws of nature by the scientific community. Conservation of mass can be attributed largely to quantitative investigations by Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, who began an investigation of combustion in 1772 when the chemical nature of air was still a mystery. Recognition that energy is conserved occurred around 1840. Those developments are summarized in Chap. 1. |
