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209Boltzmann’s equilibrium theory has not received by the scholars the attention it deserves. It was always interpreted as a mere generalization of Maxwell’s work or, in the most favorable case, a sketch of some ideas more consistently developed in the 1872 memoir. In this paper, I try to prove that this view is ungenerous. My claim is that in the theory developed during the period 1866-1871 the generalization of Maxwell’s distribution was mainly a mean to get a more general scope: a theory of the …Read more
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11Explorative Experimente: Ampère, Faraday und die Ursprünge der Elektrodynamik (review)Isis 98 857-858. 2007.
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Il rapporto fra filosofia e storia della scienza e il caso di Max PlanckEpistemologia 24 (2): 301-338. 2001.
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