Franz Josef Pisko

Franz Josef Pisko (1827-1888) was an Austrian teacher, textbook author, and physicist noted for his 1879 “On the Present Fundamental Conceptions of Physics”, wherein he gives a fairly cogent verbal historical overview of thermodynamics, and for his circa 1875 view, cited by German physicist Ludwig Buchner, that modern science of the thermodynamics of force and matter had displaced or supplanted God.