A Concise History of Thermodynamics is an excerpt from a biography entitled Josiah Willard Gibbs, the History of a Great Mind, written by a student of Dr. Gibbs, Lynde Phelps Wheeler. It was originally published by Yale University Press and is used with their permission.

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