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THERMODYNAMICS

Thermodynamics in the Long Nineteenth Century. See also Statistical Mechanics.

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• General: CURIOSA:
  • Curiosities of Heat by Rev. Lyman B. Tefft [Philadelphia: Bible and Publication Society, 1871] Part introductory science text, part sermon: a genre common in the 1800s.

• General: INTRODUCTORY:
  • Treatise on Heat by Rev. Dionysius Lardner [London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1833] Part of The Cabinet of Natural Philosophy, conducted by Rev. Dionysius Lardner, LL. D., F.R.S. (L.& E.), M.R.I.A., F.R.A.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S., Hon. F.C.P.S., &c. &c., assisted by Eminent Scientific Men.
  • A Treatise on Heat by Rev. Robert V. Dixon [Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1849] Part One
  • Handbook of Natural Philosophy: Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Heat by Rev. Dionysius Lardner [London: Walton and Maberly, 1855]
  • The Phenomena and Laws of Heat by Achille Cazin [London: Low & Marston, 1868]
  • Introduction to the Science of Heat by Temple Augustus Orme [London: Groombridge, 1869]
  • An Elementary Treatise on Heat by Balfour Stewart [Oxford: Clarendon, 1871]
  • Science for the Young: Heat by Jacob Abbott [New York: Harpers, 1872]
  • Elements of Acoustics, Light, and Heat by Wm. Lees [London: Wm. Collins, 1876]
  • An Introduction to the Study of Heat by J. Hamblin Smith [Cambridge: Rivington, 1877]
  • Matter and Motion by James Clerk Maxwell [London: SPCK, 1920]. Reprint of 1877 edition, with new notes by Larmor.
  • Acoustics, Light, and Heat; intended as an Introduction to the Study of Physical Science adapted to the Requirements of Science and Art Department (Elementary Stage), and Various Other Examining Bodies by Thomas W. Piper [London: Geo. Philip, 1880]
  • Heat by P. G. Tait [London: Macmillan, 1884]
  • Sound, Light and Heat by Mark R. Wright [London: Longmans, Green, 1887]
  • Heat: A Mode of Motion by John Tyndall [New York: Appleton, 1890]
  • Lessons in Heat and Light by D. E. Jones [London: Macmillan, 1892]
  • An Elementary Treatise on Heat by Wm. Garnett [Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, 1893]
  • Laboratory Notes on Heat Measurements by Chas. L. Norton [Boston: Southgate, 1902]
  • Mechanics, Molecular Physics, and Heat: A Twelve Weeks' College Course by R. A. Millikan [Boston: Ginn, 1903]
  • The Recent Development of Physical Science by W. C. D. Whetham [Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1904]
  • Elementary Lessons in Heat, Light, & Sound by D. E. Jones [London: Macmillan, 1905]
  • Energy: Work, Heat and Transformations by Sidney A. Reeve [New York: McGraw-Hill, 1909]
  • Heat by J. Gordon Ogden [Chicago: Popular Mechanics, 1911]
  • Elementary Lessons in Heat by S. E. Tillman [New York: John Wiley, 1911]
  • Heat by E. M. Shealy [New York: McGraw-Hill, 1914]
  • A Student's Heat by Ivor B. Hart [London: J. M. Dent, 1916]

• General: Advanced:
  • The Analytical Theory of Heat [1822] by Joseph Fourier [English translation Cambridge, 1878]
  • Theory of Heat by Philip Kelland [Cambridge: Deightons, 1837]
  • On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat by James Prescott Joule [Phil. Trans. R. S. L. 140, 61 (1850)]
  • On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion by James Prescott Joule and W. Thomson [Proc. R. S. L. 8, 178 (1856)]
  • A Collection of Nineteenth-Century German Pamphlets on Thermal Physics from the collection of the University of Michigan
  • Theory of Heat by James Clerk Maxwell [London: Longmans, Green, 1871] A revised edition [1891] was prepared by Lord Rayleigh after Maxwell's death.
  • The Mechanical Theory of Heat by Rudolf Clausius [London: Macmillan, 1875]
  • Treatise on the Mechanical Theory of Heat and Its Applications to the Steam-Engine &c. by R. S. McCulloch [New York: Van Nostrand, 1876]
  • Theory of Heat by James Clerk Maxwell [London: Longmans, Green, 1902]. As revised by Lord Rayleigh (1891).
  • Sketch of Thermodynamics by P. G. Tait [Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1877]
  • Thermodynamics by Richard Wormell [London: Longmans, Green 1877]
  • Lessons on Thermodynamics by Robert Edward Baynes [Oxford: Clarendon, 1878]
  • Elementary Thermodynamics by J. Parker [Cambridge, 1891]
  • Treatise on Thermodynamics by Peter Alexander [London: Longmans, Green 1892]
  • The Arithmetic of the Steam Engine by E. Sherman Gould [New York: Van Nostrand, 1897]
  • Vorlesungen über Thermodynamik by Max Planck [Leipzig: Veit, 1897] English translation: Treatise on Thermodynamics [London: Longmans, Green 1903]
  • An Outline of the Theory of Thermodynamics by Edgar Buckingham [New York: Macmillan, 1900]
  • Notes on Thermodynamics by H. W. Spangler [New York: John Wiley, 1901]
  • Notes on Heat and Steam by Charles H. Benjamin [Cleveland, Ohio: C. H. Holmes, 1905]
  • Thermodynamics by George Hartley Bryan [Leipzig: Teubner, 1907]
  • Thermodynamics by John Mills [Boston: Ginn, 1910]
  • Heat and Thermodynamics by Francis M. Hartmann [New York: McGraw-Hill, 1911]
  • Principles of Thermodynamics by G. A. Goodenough [New York: Holt, 1911]
  • Engineering Thermodynamics by Charles Edward Lucke [New York: McGraw-Hill, 1912]
  • Heat for Engineers by Charles Robert Darling [London: E. and F. N. Spon, 1912]
  • The Laws of Thermodynamics by W. H. Macaulay [Cambridge, 1913]
  • Applied Thermodynamics for Engineers by William D. Ennis [New York: Van Nostrand, 1915]
  • Engineering Thermodynamics by James Ambrose Moyer and James Park Calderwood [New York: John Wiley, 1915]
  • Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909 by Max Planck [New York: Columbia, 1915]
  • A Textbook of Thermo-Chemistry and Thermodynamics by Otto Sackur [London: Macmillan, 1917]
  • Heat for Advanced Students by Edwin Edser [London: Macmillan, 1920]
  • A Text-Book of Physics, Volume III: Heat by J. H. Poynting and Sir J. J. Thomson [London: Griffin, 1920]
  • A System of Physical Chemistry, Volume II by Wm. C. McC. Lewis [London: Longmans, Green, 1921]

• General: ALTERNATE APPROACHES: Heat as Repulsion:
  • Heat by John Roger [New York: privately published, 1917]

• General: ALTERNATE APPROACHES: Misc:
  • The Conservation of Gravity and Heat: with Some of the Effects of these Forces on the Physical Condition of the Earth; and a Brief Application to the Solar System by Henry W. Chapin [Springfield, Mass.: Bowles, 1864]
  • Law of Heat (Supplement): Original Observations and Discoveries: The New Science: Ice Theory in Connection with Molten Rivers by Maria Remington Hemiup [Geneva, New York: privately published, 1894]

• General: LABORATORY MANUALS FOR STUDENTS:
  • Practical Work at the Cavendish Laboratory: Heat by W. N. Shaw [Cambridge, 1886]
  • Notes on Physical Laboratory Experiments in Heat, printed for the use of students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by H. M. Goodwin [Boston: Geo. Ellis, 1904]
  • Physical Laboratory Experiments (Mechanics, Optics and Heat), printed for the use of students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by H. M. Goodwin [Boston: Geo. Ellis, 1917]

• General: PROBLEM SETS FOR STUDENTS:
  • Numerical Examples in Heat by R. E. Day [London: Longmans, Green 1885]
  • Heat and Light Problems by R. Wallace Stewart [London University Correspondence College, 1890]

• Type: RELATIVISTIC:
  • The Principle of Relativity by Ebenezer Cunningham [Cambridge, 1914] An advanced text of remarkable sophistication, especially for one of the first book-length accounts of special relativity in English. Cunningham is both a scientific conservative and a defender of Einstein. He points out that not every form of æther is ruled out by relativity but only the "unnecessarily restricted rigid" one of the later Victorians; he makes an early attempt at relativistic thermodynamics; he discusses the vexing question of defining probability in Minkowski's spacetime.

• Aspects: STEAM ENGINES;

• Aspects: CYCLES:
  • Thermodynamics, Heat Motors, and Refrigerating Machines by DeVolson Wood [New York: John Wiley, 1889]
  • The Steam Engine Considered as a Thermodynamic Machine by James Henry Cotterill [London: E. & F. N. Spon, 1890]
  • On the Conversion of Heat into Work by Wm. Anderson [London: Whittaker, 1893]
  • Thermodynamics of reversible cycles in gases and saturated vapors: Full Synopsis of a Ten Weeks' Undergraduate Course of Lectures by M. I. Pupin [New York: John Wiley, 1894]
  • The Heat Engine Problem by Charles Edward Lucke [Ph. D. thesis, Columbia University, 1902]
  • Thermodynamics of Heat Engines by Sidney A. Reeve [New York: McGraw-Hill, 1903]
  • Thermodynamics of the Steam-Engine and Other Heat-Engines by Cecil H. Peabody [New York: John Wiley, 1907]
  • The Steam-Engine and Other Heat-Engines by Sir James Alfred Ewing [Cambridge, 1910]
  • Thermodynamics of the Steam Turbine by Cecil H. Peabody [New York: John Wiley, 1911]
  • The Theory of Heat Engines by Wm. Inchley [London: Longmans, Green, 1913]
  • Notes and Examples on the Theory of Heat & Heat Engines by John Case [Cambridge: Heffer, 1922]

• Aspects: ENTROPY and REVERSIBILITY:
  • Über Gleichgewichtszustände isotroper Körper in verschiedenen Temperaturen by Max Planck [Munich: Ackermann, 1880]
  • Entropy; or, Thermodynamics from an engineer's standpoint, and the reversibility of thermodynamics by James Swinburne [London: Archibald Constable, 1904]
  • Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909 by Max Planck [New York: Columbia, 1915]

• Aspects: HEAT TRANSFER:
  • The Flow of Heat through Furnace Walls by Walter T. Ray and Henry Kreisinger [Washington: Govt. Printing Office, 1911]

• Aspects: RADIATION:
  • Abhandlungen über Emission und Absorption by Gustav Robert Kirchhoff [Leipzig: Engelmann, 1898]
  • Vorlesungen über die Theorie der Wärmestrahlung by Max Planck [Leipzig: Barth, 1906] English translation: The Theory of Heat Radiation [Philadelphia: Blakiston's, 1914]

• Aspects: REFRIGERATION:
  • Thermodynamics, Heat Motors, and Refrigerating Machines by DeVolson Wood [New York: John Wiley, 1889]
  • "Eclipse" Refrigerating Machines by the Engineers of the Frick Company [Waynesboro, Penna.: Frick, 1890] Essentially a very long advertisement, but interesting.
  • Compend of Mechanical Refrigeration: A Comprehensive Digest of Applied Energetics for the Practical Use of Ice Manufacturers, Cold Storage Men, Brewers, &c., by J. E. Siebel [Chicago: H. S. Rich, 1903]
  • The Transmission of Heat through Cold-Storage Insulation by Charles P. Paulding [New York: Van Nostrand, 1905]

• Re: CHEMISTRY;

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