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© Stephen G. Brush

Maxwell on Heat and Statistical Mechanics: On "Avoiding All Personal Enquiries" of Molecules

Edited by Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush, and C. W. F. Everitt

Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press & London: Associated University Press, 1995. 550 pp. ISBN 0-934223-34-3 (hardcover).
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CONTENTS

  1. Introduction

  2. Documents from Kinetic Theory to Thermodynamics

    Correspondence with William Thomson, G. G. Stokes, and P. G. Tait; unpublished manuscripts on equilibrium of temperature in a vertical column of gas, and publications by Maxwell and F. Guthrie; review of H. W. Watson's book on kinetic theory

  3. Documents on Thermodynamics

    Correspondence with William Thomson, P. G. Tait, James Thomson, R. J. E. Clausius, Thomas Andrews, Mark Pattison and C. J. Munro, on demons, positivism, entropy, and dissipation of energy; unpublished manuscripts

  4. Documents on the Virial Theorem & Equation of State

    Correspondence with P. G. Tait; unpublished manuscripts; review of thesis by J. D. Van der Waals

  5. Documents on Statistical Mechanics

    Unpublished manuscripts and published paper on distribution of energy among molecules

  6. Documents on the Radiometer & Rarified Gas Dynamics

    Correspondence with William Huggins, P. G. Tait, Robert Cay, William Thomson, G. G. Stokes, and Osborne Reynolds; referee reports by Maxwell on papers by William Crookes, Reynolds, Arthur Schuster; referee report by Thomson on a paper by Maxwell; unpublished drafts of paper on rarified gases.


A Maxwell Bibliography
 - Maxwell's Published Works
 - Secondary Sources

Chronological Index to Maxwell Correspondence
Index