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Gibbs, Josiah Willard (1839 - 1903)
ELEMENTARE GRUNDLAGEN DER STATISTISCHEN MECHANIK ENTWICKELT BESONDERS IM HINBLICK AUF EINE RATIONELLE BEGRÜNDUNG DER THERMODYNAMIK.
Leipzig, Verlag von Joh. Ambr. Barth, 1905.
22 cm. XVI, 216 pp.

Half green morocco, spine gilt in six compartments, top edge gilt, original printed wrappers preserved. Occasional pencil underlinings.

$ 500

First edition in German of Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics (New Haven 1902), translated by E. Zermelo. A dissertation on "the analogy ... between the average behavior of a canonical ensemble of systems and the behavior of a physical system pbeying the laws of thermodynamics"(Martin J. Klein in D.S.B., 5, p. 392). In a 1911 note in the Annalen, Einstein said that had he know of Gibb's book in 1902, he would not have published his own work; cf. A. Einstein, Bemerkungen zu den P. Hertzschen Arbeiten: "ûber die mechanischen Grundlagen der Thermodynamik" (Annalen d. Physik, 34 (1911), p. 175-6).

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