In his Agriculturae fundamenta chemica (1761), the first important treatise on the subject, Wallerius proclaimed that living creatures are driven by an internal energy unique to life.
In his Agriculturae fundamenta chemica (1761), the first important treatise on the subject, Wallerius proclaimed that living creatures are driven by an internal energy unique to life.
The contemporary scientific definition of energy is something all together different. Perhaps went Wallerius was referring to was the sense of self and goal direction.
