Antedating of "Entropy"

[Shapiro, Fred]

entropy (OED 1868)

1865 _Athenaeum_ 16 Sept. 374 (ProQuest)  The function by which the absolute temperature is multiplied in calculating the conversion of energy between the mechanical and the thermic forms is the variation of what the author has called the "metamorphic function," being one term of the differential of the "thermodynamic function," and corresponds to what Prof. Clausius calls "entropy."

Fred Shapiro

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