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The first aim of the following selection is to include all of Boltzmann's
Populaere Schriften (his
Writings addressed to the Public) that will convey to the modem reader his individual conception of the nature of science in general and theoretical physics in particular.
From Populaere Schriften (Writings addressed to the Public)On the Methods of Theoretical Physics (1892).
The Second Law of Thermodynamics (1886).
On the Significance of Theories (1890).
On Energetics (1896).
On the Indispensability of Atomism in Natural Science (1897).
More on Atomism (1897).
On the Question of the Objective Existence of Processes in Inanimate Nature (1897).
On the Development of the Methods of Theoretical Physics in Recent Times (1899).
On the Fundamental Principles and Equations of Mechanics, I, II (1899).
On the Principles of Mechanics, I, II (1900, 1902).
An Inaugural Lecture on Natural Philosophy (1903).
On Statistical Mechanics (1904).
Reply to a Lecture on Happiness given by Prof. Ostwald (1904).
On a Thesis of Schopenhauer's (1905).
From Nature Vol. 51 (1895)On Certain Questions of the Theory of Gases.
From Encyclopaedia BritannicaModel (1902).
From Vorlesungen ueber die Principe der Mechanik (Lectures on the Principles of Mechanics)