Energy
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The word energy derives from the Ancient Greek: ἐνέργεια, romanized: energeia, lit. ''activity, operation'', which possibly appears for the first time in the work of Aristotle in the 4th century BC. In contrast to the modern definition, energeia was a qualitative philosophical concept, broad enough to include ideas such as happiness and pleasure. In the late 17th century, Gottfried Leibniz proposed the idea of the Latin: vis viva, or livi