LORENTZ, H.A.

Les Ëquations du Mouvement des Gaz, et la Propagation du Son suivant la Théorie cinétique des Gaz.

Harlem, Les Heritieres Loosjes, 1881. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrapper (only rearwrapper a. backstrip, frontwr. lacks). Wrapper a bit frayed at edges. A faint stamp on titlepage. In "Archives Néerlandaises des Science Exactes et Naturelles. Redigée par E.H. von Baumhauer", Tome XVI. VI,476,(1) pp. a. 9 lithographed plates. plates. Uncut and unopened, clean and fine. (The entire volume offered). Lorentz's paper pp. pp. 1-46.

First appearance of an importent paper on the kinetic theory of gases and thermodynamics in which Lorentz worked out a number of problems still existing in the molecular-kinetic interpretation of thermodynamics, and he corrects here Boltzmann's proof of the H-theorem.

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