Einstein

1887 · ref. 48810 — Leipzig Barth 1887-91. 8vo. No wrappers. 4 papers. In: "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann" Neue Folge Bd. XXX No. 4 XXXI No 6 XXXII No. 11 XLIV No. 11. - Pp. 545-704 a. 1 plate pp. 145-336 a. 1 plate pp. 337-528 a. 1 plate pp. 385-576 a. 1 plate. With titlepge to vol. XXX htitlepage to vol. XXXI titlepage to vol. XXXII and titlepage to vol. XLIV. Titlepages with a stamp and on verso. Planck's papers: pp. 562-582 pp. 189-203 pp. 462-503 and pp. 385-428. Clean copies. First appearance of all 4 papers constituting Planck's seminal papers on entropy carrying the general title "On the principles of Increase of Entropy" in which he applied the second law of thermodynamics to chemical problems."His goal was as he said in the first paper of the series to carry further the "grand generalization" of Helmholtz Josiah Willard Gibbs and others: like the first principle of the mechanical heat theory the second the "Carnot-Clausius" principle applies not only to heat phenomena but to all kinds of physical and chemical phenomena; and because the second principle applies not only to reversible processes but also to irreversible or "natural" processes it applies to all processes whatsoever."Jungnickel and McCormach "Intellectual Mastery of Nature vol. 2 pp. 52 ff.What Einstein admired and called Planck's "first great scientific discovery" was the generality of its formulas which contain all that can be derived from pure thermodynamic principles. Einstein referred to the third paper in this series with the title "Gesetze des Eintritts beliebiger thermodynamischer und chemischer Reactionen"Akademie Nos. 8910 and 20. unknown