Ludwig Boltzmann His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900–1906: Book One: A Documentary History2 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Physics | 10 |
Methodology of Science | 21 |
Boltzmanns Philosophy | 27 |
Myths and Exaggerations | 36 |
Conclusions | 41 |
Preliminary Quotations 18861899 | 43 |
Call to Leipzig | 55 |
B Some Observations Concerning Mach and Boltzmann | 127 |
C Natural Philosophy | 133 |
Brentano and California | 145 |
B More Philosophy Lecture Notes | 164 |
El Dorado Anecdotes | 171 |
B Some Stories about Boltzmann | 197 |
Final Months Aftermath | 205 |
Boltzmanns Battalion | 215 |
B Opinions about Ostwald and Boltzmann and the Struggle between Energeticism and Atomism from Two Former Students and a Colleague | 75 |
C Methodology of Science | 77 |
Back to Vienna | 87 |
B Student Comments on Boltzmanns Lectures | 105 |
C Natural Philosophy | 107 |
Philosophy Lectures | 111 |
Beethoven in Heaven A Choral Jest | 221 |
225 | |
II Obituaries of Boltzmann 19061908 | 228 |
Articles and Books | 229 |
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