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Colin, L. G. (2003). From the Steam Machine to Absolute Zero. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Editors.

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• TITLE: History of Two Fundamental Principles of Physics: Least Action and Conservation of Energy

  AUTHORS: Agamenon R. E. Oliveira

  KEYWORDS: History of Physics; Epistemology of Physics; Fundamental Principles of Physics

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Historical Studies, Vol.3 No.2, March 31, 2014

  ABSTRACT: One of the aims most sought after by physics along the years has been to find a principle, the simplest possible, into which all natural phenomena would fit, and which would also allow the calculation of all past occurrences and principally future occurrences. Evidently, this is far from being reached and quite probably does not even exist. Nevertheless, an approximation to this ideal is always possible and the history of physics shows that some results in this direction have been achieved. Thus, the history of the principles of least action and conservation of energy presented in this paper explains the search for this ideal.