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small 8vo. pp. xii, 333, [1], 6(ads). with half-title. text illus. original blind-stamped cloth (foxing to flyleaves & half-title). Fourth Edition. Maxwell is best known for discovering the theory of electromagnetism, and is viewed as the father of modern physics. The present textbook on thermodynamics was first published in 1870 and went through several editions with extensive revisions. "Chiefly an exposition of standard results, it did contain one far-reaching innovation, the "Maxwell relations" between the thermodynamical variables, pressure, volume, entropy, and temperature, and their partial derivatives. (DSB, p. 227).…