NERNST, WALTHER.

Theoretische Chemie vom Standpunkte der Avogadro'schen Regel und der Thermodynamik. Mit 26 Holzschnitten.

Stuttgart, Ferdinand Enke, 1893. Contemp. hcalf. Wear to joints and spine ends. Part of leather at upper compartment gone. XIV,589 pp. a. textillustrations. Internally fine and clean.

First edition of this importent textbook, written from 1891 when he became professor of physical chemistry at Göttingen. The work made full use of the thermodynamic notions of men like Ostwald. In 1906 Nernst announced his discovery, usually referred to as the thid law of thermodynamics. - He received the Nobel Prize in 1920 in chemistry. - Duveen p. 427. - DSB XV, p. 434-35.

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