Papers Published
He submitted his ideas in a paper to the Royal Society in 1820 where it was peer reviewed by Sir Humphry Davy. Davy had already sympathised with the view that heat was associated with molecular motion rather than with Joseph Black's caloric theory of heat but he rejected Herapath's paper with some coolness, uncomfortable with the implication that there was an absolute zero of temperature at which all motion ceased. Davy may also have had some distaste for the mechanistic Newtonian picture, influenced as he was by the more holistic philosophy of the Romantic movement.
In 1821, Herapath managed to have his paper published in the Annals of Philosophy, a well-read journal that counted Michael Faraday among its regular contributors. However, the paper seems to have attracted little attention other than from James Prescott Joule who presented a short account of the work in 1848, again to little reaction. Meanwhile, Herapath maintained a campaign against Davy and the Royal Society in the correspondence pages of The Times newspaper.
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