Excerpt from Treatise on the Mechanical Theory of Heat: And Its Applications to the Steam-Engine, Etc
Of part of this book, privately lithographed for my pupils, a few copies given to scientific friends caused some to express a desire for its publication. Hence, after revision, it is offered to the public, with the hope that it may prove useful and acceptable.
Any one acquainted with only the elements of analytical geometry, and of the fluxional calculus, should find no difficulty in understanding all it contains.
In this country, however, scientific education, as well as classical, has unfortunately retrograded; and superficiality is the fashion of the day. Hence, some anxious for scientific knowledge, with the least labour and in the shortest time, imagine it might be well in scientific literature to dispense with the calculus. To them no better advice can be given than to begin by studying it thoroughly, if they would reasonably hope ever to comprehend much which must otherwise be unintelligible.
In this book, as in all his instruction to young men, it has been the effort of the writer to keep steadily in view the sublime unity, simplicity, and perfection of those laws which are manifest in the obedient physical universe. Laws which could not exist without a Law-giver.
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