A rigorously mathematical analysis of energy relationships (heat, work, temperature, and equilibrium). It describes systems whose states are determined by thermal parameters, such as temperature, in addition to mechanical and electromagnetic parameters. (From Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, 12th ed)
    

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Kinetics and thermodynamics in biochemistry / by H. Geoffrey Bray and Kenneth White.

The thermodynamics of life and experimental physiology, 1770-1880 / by Richard Lynn Kremer.

Clausius's mathematical method and the mechanical theory of heat / Eri Yagi.

Principes de thermodynamique / par Paul de Saint-Robert.

Introduction à la mécanique chimique / [Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem].

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Kinetics and thermodynamics in biochemistry / by H. Geoffrey Bray and Kenneth White.

The thermodynamics of life and experimental physiology, 1770-1880 / by Richard Lynn Kremer.

Clausius's mathematical method and the mechanical theory of heat / Eri Yagi.

Principes de thermodynamique / par Paul de Saint-Robert.

Introduction à la mécanique chimique / [Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem].