‎GIBBS, J. WILLARD.‎
‎Elementare Grundlagen der statistischen Mechanik. Entwickelt besonders im Hinblick auf eine rationelle Begründung der Thermodynamik. Deutsch bearbeitet von E. Zermelo.‎

‎Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905. Later half cloth. XVI, 216 pp. Name and stamp on title. With calculations in margins, probably by former owner Christan Møller.‎

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‎First edition in German of Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics (New Haven 1902). Gibbs (1839-1903), theoretical physicist and chemist who was one of the greatest scientists in the United States in the 19th century. His application of thermodynamic theory converted a large part of physical chemistry from an empirical into a deductive science. The Elementary Principles of Statistical Mechanics, was published in 1902. The book laid the foundation for a new branch of theoretical physics, statistical mechanics, that is not only a major field in its own right, but that also crucial to developments that eventually led to quantum mechanics.‎