Scientific Papers, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Stanyon, Ellis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330494660 ISBN 13: 9781330494660

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2016

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Excerpt from Scientific Papers, Vol. 1

With the exception of Professor J. Willard Gibbs's last work, Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, and of his lectures upon Vector Analysis, adapted for use as a text-book by his pupil Dr. E. B. Wilson, and printed like the former as a volume of the Yale Bicentennial Series, none of his contributions to mathematical and physical science were published in separate form, but appeared in the transactions of learned societies and in various scientific journals.

These scattered papers, which constitute the larger and perhaps the more important part of his published work, are here presented in a collected edition, from which, so far as known to the editors, no printed paper has been omitted. A small amount of hitherto unpublished matter has also been included. Permission for the present reprint of the different papers contained in these volumes has in every case been granted by the authorities in charge of the publications in which they originally appeared, a courtesy for which the editors desire here to make due acknowledgment.

In the arrangement of the papers a grouping by subject has been adopted in preference to a strict chronological order. Within the separate groups, however, the

The papers on Thermodynamics, which form somewhat more than one half of the whole, constitute the first volume. Among these is the well-known memoir On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances, which has proved to be of such fundamental importance to Physical Chemistry and has been translated into German by Professor Ostwald, and into French by Professor Le Chatelier.

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Excerpt from Scientific Papers, Vol. 1

In the arrangement of the papers a grouping by subject has been adopted in preference to a strict chronological order. Within the separate groups, however, the chronological order has in general been preserved.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Scientific Papers, Vol. 1

With the exception of Professor J. Willard Gibbs's last work, Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, and of his lectures upon Vector Analysis, adapted for use as a text-book by his pupil Dr. E. B. Wilson, and printed like the former as a volume of the Yale Bicentennial Series, none of his contributions to mathematical and physical science were published in separate form, but appeared in the transactions of learned societies and in various scientific journals.

These scattered papers, which constitute the larger and perhaps the more important part of his published work, are here presented in a collected edition, from which, so far as known to the editors, no printed paper has been omitted. A small amount of hitherto unpublished matter has also been included. Permission for the present reprint of the different papers contained in these volumes has in every case been granted by the authorities in charge of the publications in which they originally appeared, a courtesy for which the editors desire here to make due acknowledgment.

In the arrangement of the papers a grouping by subject has been adopted in preference to a strict chronological order. Within the separate groups, however, the

The papers on Thermodynamics, which form somewhat more than one half of the whole, constitute the first volume. Among these is the well-known memoir On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances, which has proved to be of such fundamental importance to Physical Chemistry and has been translated into German by Professor Ostwald, and into French by Professor Le Chatelier.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1330494660
• ISBN 13: 9781330494660
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464
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