[Ads-l] Antedating of "Statistical Mechanics"

[Shapiro, Fred]

statistical mechanics (OED 1885)

1884 Kansas City Review of Science and Technology Oct. 289 (Internet Archive)

On the fundamental formula of statistical mechanics with applications to astronomy and thermo-dynamics, J. Willard Gibbs.

Fred Shapiro

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