Boltzmann’s Bibliography*

(Compiled by Christina Weber)

Books Published in German:

Festrede zur Feier des 301. Gründungstages der Karl-Franzens-Universität zu Graz.

Leipzig: J.A. Barth, 1888.

Vorlesungen über Maxwells Theorie der Elektrizität und des Lichtes. 2 vols. Leipzig:

J.A. Barth, 1891, 1893.

Vorlesungen über Gastheorie. 2 vols. Leipzig: J.A. Barth, 1896, 1898.

Vorlesungen über die Principien der Mechanik. 2 vols. Leipzig: J. A. Barth,1897, 1904.

Über die Prinzipien der Mechanik: Zwei Akademische Antrittsreden. Leipzig: S.

Hirzel, 1903.

Populäre Schriften. Leipzig: J.A. Barth, 1905. (reprinted in 1919 and 1925)

Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen. 3 vols. Ed. Fritz Hasenöhrl. Leipzig: J.A. Barth,

1909. (Collection of Boltzmann’s scientific articles in scientific journals.)

 

Books Published in English:

Lectures on Gas Theory. Translated by Stephen G. Brush. London: Cambridge University Press, 1964.

Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems. Ed. Brian McGuinness. Trans. Paul Foulkes. Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1974.

Ludwig Boltzmann Principien der Naturfilosofi- Lectures on Natural Philosophy 1903-

1906 with Two Essays by Stephen G. Brush and Gerhard Fasol. Trans. and ed. Ilse M. Fasol-Boltzmann. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1990. (This is a collection

of lectures and lecture notes).

 

Articles and Lectures Published in German:

"Weitere Studien über das Wärmegleichgewicht unter Gasmolekülen." Sitzungsberichte Akademie der Wissenschaften 66 (1872): 275-370. (included

in Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Vol. 1, 1909. 316-402.)

"Über Maxwells Elektrizitätstheorie." Mitteilungen des naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Graz, August (1873). (inclued in Populäre Schriften, 1905. 11- 24.)

"Über die Beziehung eines allgemeine mechanischen Satzes zum zweiten Hauptsatze der Wärmetheorie." Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissen-

schaften 75 (1877): 67-73. (included in Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Vol. 2, 1909. 116-122.)

"Der zweite Hauptsatz der mechanischen Wärmelehre." A lecture given at the

Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna on May 29, 1886. (included in

Populäre Schriften, 1905. 25-50.)

"Über die Bedeutung von Theorien." A reply to A. Tewes and H. Streintz on his

departure from Graz to Munich on July 16, 1890. (included in Populäre Schriften, 1905. 76-91.)

"Entgegung auf die wärmetheoretischen Betrachtungen des Hrn. E. Zermelo." Annalen der Physik 57 (1896): 773-84. (included in Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Vol. 3, 1909. 567-78.)

"Über die Frage nach der objektiven Existenz der Vorgänge in der unbelebten Natur."

Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften 106, Abt. II, January (1897): 83. (included in Populäre Schriften, 1905. 162-187.)

"Über die Unentbehrlichkeit der Atomistik in der Nautrwissenschaft." Annalen der

Physik 60 (1897): 231. (included in Populäre Schriften, 1925. 141-57.)

"Zu Hrn. Zermelos Abhandlung über die mechanische Erklärung irreversiler Vorgänge." Annalen der Physik 60 (1897): 392-98. (included in Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Vol. 3, 1909. 579-86.)

"Nochmals über die Atomistik." Annalen der Physik 61 (1897): 790. (included in Populäre Schriften, 1905. 158-61.)

"Über die Entwicklung der Methoden der Theoretischen Physik in neurer Zeit." A

lecture given at the Munich Natural Science Convention on Friday, September

22, 1899. (included in Populäre Schriften, 1905. 198-227.)

"Über die Grundprinzipien und Grundgleichungen der Mechanik." A four part lecture

given at the tenth anniversary of Clark University during the Summer of 1899.

(included in Populäre Schriften, (1905): 253-307.)

"Eugen von Lommel." Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung 8 (1900): 47-53. (included in Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Vol. 3, 1909.

673-81.)

"Über die Prinzipien der Mechanik." Über die Prinzipien der Mechanik, zwei akademische Antrittsreden. Leipzig, 1903. A two part lecture given as an

innaugural event in mechanics in Leipzig in November 1900 and the second as

an innaugural speech in mechanics on his return to Vienna in October 1902.

(included in Populäre Schriften, 1905. 308-37.)

"Ein Antrittsvortrag zur Naturphilosophie." Die Zeit 11 December 1903, Beilage zu

Nr. 432: 1-2. A lecture published to correct versions of the actual lectures reported in Neue Freie Presse 27 October 1903 and Arbeiter Zeitung 29 October 1903. (included in Populäre Schriften, 1905. 338-44.)

"Über eine These Schopenhauers." A lecture given at the Philosophical Society in

Vienna on January 21, 1905. (included in Populäre Schriften, 1905. 385- 402.)

Boltzmann, L. and Joseph Nabl. "Kinetische Theorie der Materie." Encyclopädie der

mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol. 5 part 1. Ed. Felix Klein. Leipzig-Vienna: Teubner, 1907. 493-557.

 

Articles and Lectures Published in English

"Boiling-Points of Organic Bodies." Philosophical Magazine and Journal 42 (1871): 393. (included in Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Vol. 1, 1909. 199.)

"On Maxwell’s Method of Deriving the Equations of Hydrodynamics from the Kinetic Theory of Gases." Report of the British Association, Oxford (1894): 579.

(included in Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Vol. 3, 1909. 526-27.)

"On Certain Questions of the Theory of Gases." Nature 51 (1895): 413-15. (included

in Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Vol. 3, 1909. 535-44 and Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems, 1974. 201-209.)

"Reply to Culverwell." Nature 51 (1895): 581. (included in Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Vol. 3 (1909): 545.)

"On the Minimum Theorem in the Theory of Gases." Nature 52 (1895): 221. (included in Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Vol. 3, 1909. 546.)

"Some Errata in Maxwell’s Paper ‘On the Mechanical Explanation of Irreversible

Processes.’" Nature 57 (1897): 77-9.

"The Recent Development of Method in Theoretical Physics." The Monist 11 (1901):

226-57.

"On the Necessity of Atomic Theories in Physics (1897)." Trans. Thomas J. McCormack. The Monist, , 12 (1901): 65-79. (included in Populäre Schriften, 1905. 141-57.)

"Theories as Representations (1899)." Philosophy of Science. Ed. Arthur Danto &

Sidney Morgenbesser. Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1964. 245-52.

"Further Studies on the Thermal Equilibrium of Gas Molecules (1872)." Kinetic Theory. Vol. 2. Ed. and Trans. Stephen Brush. New York: Pergamon Press, 1966: 88-175. (included in Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Vol. 1, 1909. 237- 58.)

"On the Relation of a General Mechanical Theorem to the Second Law of Thermodynamics (1877)." Kinetic Theory. Vol. 2. Ed. and Trans. Stephen Brush. New York: Pergamon Press, 1966: 188-93. (included in Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Vol. 2, 1909. 164-223.)

"Reply to Zermelo’s Remarks on the Theory of Heat (1896)." Kinetic Theory. Vol. 2. Ed. and Trans. Stephen Brush. New York: Pergamon Press, 1966: 218-28.

(included in Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Vol. 3, 1909. 567-78.)

"The Second Law of Thermodynamics (1886)." Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems. Ed. Brian McGuinness. Trans. Paul Foulkes. Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1974. 13-32.

"On the Significance of Theories (1890)." Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems. Ed. Brian McGuinness. Trans. Paul Foulkes. Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1974. 33-6.

"On the Methods of Theoretical Physics (1892)." Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems. Ed. Brian McGuinness. Trans. Paul Foulkes. Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1974. 5-12.

"On Energetics (1896)." Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems. Ed. Brian McGuinness. Trans. Paul Foulkes. Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1974. 37-40.

"More on Atomism (1897)." Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems. Ed. Brian McGuinness. Trans. Paul Foulkes. Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1974. 54-6.

"On the Question of the Objective Existence of Processes in Inanimate Nature (1897)."

Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems. Ed. Brian McGuinness. Trans. Paul Foulkes. Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1974. 57-76.

"On the Fundamental Principles and Equations of Mechanics (1899)." Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems. Ed. Brian McGuinness. Trans. Paul Foulkes. Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1974. 101-28.

"Reply to a Lecture on Happiness given by Prof. Ostwald (1904)." Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems. Ed. Brian McGuinness. Trans. Paul Foulkes. Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1974. 173-84.

"On a Thesis of Schopenhauer’s (1905)." Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems. Ed. Brian McGuinness. Trans. Paul Foulkes. Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Co., 1974. 185-98.

"A German Professor’s Journey into El Dorado (1905)." Trans. Margaret Malt. Annals of Nuclear Energy 12 (1977): 147-59.

 

 

*Sources:

Broda, Engelbert. Ludwig Boltzmann: Man, Physicist, Philosopher. Trans. Larry Gay.

Woodbridge, CT: Ox Bow Press, 1983.

Blackmore, John T. Ludwig Boltzmann: His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900-1906.

(Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science vol. 168) Dordrecht: Kluwer

Academic Publishers, 1995.