Tags: cold
Categories: Alternative conceptions
An example of an historical conception (since discarded):
"…Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655), a convinced atomist, saw heat and cold as distinct species of matter. The atoms of cold he considered as tetrahedral, and when they penetrated a liquid that liquid would solidify, – somehow."
Müller, I. (2007). A History of Thermodynamics. The doctrine of energy and entropy. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer.
