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/sci/, in that world before atomic-kinetic theory, and indeed before atomic theory at all, how precisely was "caloric theory" (heat is an invisible fluid that repels itself) more defensible than "frigoric theory"?

What thermodynamic observations (hopefully those available to them) supported the former and not the latter?

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