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Amsterdam, New York & Oxford: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1976. xxxix + 769 pp. (2 books) Reprint, American Elsevier, 1986. ISBN 0-444-87008-3 (book 1); 0-444-87009-1 (book 2).

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BOOK 1: PHYSICS AND THE ATOMISTS

Part A: Introductory Survey


1. The Kinetic Theory in the History of Physics
   

   Part B: Personalities
   
   

2. Herapath
3. Waterston
4. Clausius
5. Maxwell
6. Boltzmann
7. Van der Waals
8. Mach
   

   BOOK 2: STATISTICAL PHYSICS AND IRREVERSIBLE PROCESSES
   
   Part C: Problems
   
   

9. The wave theory of heat
10. Foundations of statistical mechanics 1845-1915
11. Interatomic forces and the equation of state
12. Viscosity and the Maxwell-Boltzmann transport theory
13. Heat conduction and the Stefan-Boltzmann law
14. Randomness and irreversibility
15. Brownian movement

    Part D: Bibliography
    
    

16. The literature of kinetic theory

Index