Uber Die Beziehung Zwischen Dem Zweiten Hauptsatze Der Mechanischen Warmetheorie Und Der

by Ludwig Boltzmann

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First edition

Vienna: Karl Gerold's Sohn, 1878. / First edition, complete journal issue in the original printed yellow wrappers, uncut and wholly unopened, of the paper in which Boltzmann first derived the relation between entropy and probability — the Boltzmann principle Max Planck would cast in the compressed form S = k log W now engraved above Boltzmann's bust in Vienna's Zentralfriedhof. Provoked by Loschmidt's reversibility objection

• Binding: Wrappers

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