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Ludwig Boltzmann His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900–1906

Book One: A Documentary History

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  • © 1995

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  1. John Blackmore
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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 168)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • John Blackmore
    Pages 1-42

  3. Preliminary Quotations

    • John Blackmore
    Pages 43-54

  4. Call to Leipzig

    • John Blackmore
    Pages 55-86

  5. Back to Vienna

    • John Blackmore
    Pages 87-110

  6. Philosophy Lectures

    • A. Correspondence
    Pages 111-144

  7. Brentano and California

    • John Blackmore
    Pages 145-170

  8. El Dorado & Anecdotes

    • Ludwig Boltzmann
    Pages 171-204

  9. Final Months & Aftermath

    • John Blackmore
    Pages 205-214

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 215-272
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2 But already he had done important work on thermal equilibrium which helped generalize Maxwell's distribution law. Indeed, there is part of a letter by James Clerk Maxwell to Loschmidt from this period which runs: "I am very pleased over the outstanding work of your student; in England experi­ mental physics is much neglected. Sir William Thomson has done the most in this connection, but you [in Austria] are ahead of us with your good example. "2 But while praise was fine, Boltzmann lusted after further travel. He wanted to know what other physicists were doing first hand. In 1870 he attended lectures by Bunsen and Konigsberger in Heid­ elberg, and in the same year went to Berlin only to scurry back to Vienna with the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, but Boltzmann was back in Berlin the next year attending lectures, visiting laboratories, and working on dielectricity more or less under the direction of Kirchhhoff and Helmholtz.

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