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| YH Khoo |
 Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 3:25 am |
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Dear Colleagues,
Allow me a moment to introduce my new book, The Kinetic Theory of
Gases: An Anthology of Classic Papers with Historical Commentary
(Imperial College Press, Jul 2003), which is also edited by Nancy
Hall.
This book introduces physics students and teachers to the historical
development of the kinetic theory of gases, by providing a collection
of the most important contributions by Clausius, Maxwell and
Boltzmann, with introductory surveys explaining their significance. In
addition, extracts from the works of Boyle, Newton, Mayer, Joule,
Helmholtz, Kelvin and others show the historical context of ideas
about gases, energy and irreversibility. In addition to five thematic
essays connecting the classical kinetic theory with 20th century
topics such as indeterminism and interatomic forces, there is an
extensive international bibliography of historical commentaries on
kinetic theory, thermodynamics, etc. published in the past four
decades.
The book will be useful to historians of science who need primary and
secondary sources to be conveniently available for their own research
and interpretation, along with the bibliography which makes it easier
to learn what other historians have already done on this subject.
For more information, please visit the publisher's web site at
http://www.icpress.co.uk/books/histsci/p281.html
Sincerely,
Stephen Brush
Author of The Kinetic Theory of Gases
website: punsterproductions.com/~sciencehistory |
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| Stan Brown |
| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:35 am |
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