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January 28, 2003
© Stephen G. Brush

Maxwell on Molecules and Gases

Edited by Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush, and C.W.F.Everitt

Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 1986. xv + 565 pp. ISBN 0-262-07094-4 (hardcover) www.mitpress.mit.edu

CONTENTS

  1. Kinetic Theory and the Properties of Gases: Maxwell's Work in the Nineteenth-Century Context

  2. Documents on Atomic and Statistical Physics
    Correspondence with John Herapath, P. G. Tait, William Thomson, A. J. Mott, Herbert Spencer, G. G. Stokes, C. J. Ellicott, S. T. Preston, and Simon Newcomb; manuscripts and published articles

  3. Documents on the Kinetic Theory of Gases
    Correspondence with G. G. Stokes, Lewis Campbell, H. R. Droop, C. H. Cay, P. G. Tait, A. Crum Brown, J. W. Strutt, William Garnett; manuscripts and published articles


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