»Dichtung heißt für ihn, den >genauen Namen der Dinge< finden. Dies setzt voraus: Zucht, Maß, Askese, Konzentration. Gedanke und Gefühl werden eins. Es war ein stetes, zähes Ringen um den endgültigen, unverrückbaren Ausdruck.«
This little volume in the "Writers of Wales" series gives an interesting account of the career of a scholar who contributed an immense amount to the development of Welsh learning in the closing decades of the nineteenth century and the first three of the twentieth . . ." -Studia Celtica
The structure of the theory ofthermodynamics has changed enormously since its inception in the middle of the nineteenth century. Shortly after Thomson and Clausius enunciated their versions of the Second Law, Clausius, Maxwell, and Boltzmann began actively pursuing the molecular basis of thermo dynamics, work that culminated in the Boltzmann equation and the theory of transport processes in dilute gases. Much later, Onsager undertook the eluc...