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1. Introduction: Feynman's blocks
2. Perpetual motion is prohibited
3. Vis viva: the fist 'block' of energy
4. Heat: seventeenth century
5. Heat in the eighteenth century
6. The discovery of latent and specific heats
7. A hundred and one years of mechanics: Newton to Lagrange via Daniel Bernoulli
8. A tale of two countries: the rise of the steam engine and the caloric theory of heat
9. Rumford, Davy and Young
10. Naked heat: the gas laws and the specific heat of gases
11. Two contrasting characters: Fourier and Herapath
12. Sadi Carnot
13. Hamilton and Green
14. The mechanical equivalent of heat: Mayer, Joule and Waterston
15. Faraday and Helmholtz
16. The laws of thermodynamics: Thomson and Clausius
17. A forward look: Maxwell, Boltzmann, Planck, Schrodinger and Einstein
18. Impossible things; difficult things
19. Conclusions.