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The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of water from 0° to 1°.

Julius von Mayer

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.

Julius von Mayer

My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation.

Julius von Mayer

My early feeling that scientific truths are to the Christian religion much what brooks and rivers are to the ocean, has become my most vital conviction. Tempted as I was to drift with the tempest of passion, I had made shipwreck in these latter years, had not in my heaviest hours the Mercy of God, through your instrumentality, kept me always on the right path.

Julius von Mayer

The Sun... is an inexhaustible source of physical force — that continuously wound-up spring which sustains in motion the mechanism of all the activities on Earth.

Julius von Mayer

Concerning the intimate nature of heat, or of electricity, etc., I know nothing, any more than I know the intimate nature of any matter whatsoever, or of anything else.

Julius von Mayer

Julius von Mayer

Julius von Mayer

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Born: November 25, 1814

Died: March 20, 1878 (aged 63)

Bio: Julius Robert Mayer was a German physician and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics.

Known for:

Sweet Salt
Quick Cash: The Story of the Loan Shark

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