"Thermodynamik des Turmalins und mechanische Theorie der Muskelcontraction."

8vo. Pages (430)-458. [Entire volume: viii, 760 pp.] Tables. Quarter black cloth, cloth corners, paste-paper over boards, gilt spine; rubbed. Ex library ms. paper spine label, rubber stamps. Very good. Reicke "made important contributions to the molecular theory of pyroelectric and piezoelectric phenomena in tourmaline and quartz (1891, 1914). But his most important and influential researches were undoubtedly on the theory of conduction in metals and a granular theory of the properties of metals." [Encyclopedia]. "About 1885 Riecke conducted theoretical and experimental researches in hydrodynamics and later, about 1890, undertook theoretical studies in thermodynamics, concentrating on the concept of thermodynamic potentials, which he applied to problems in physical chemistry. Noteworthy among these studies was one, in 1893, in which he analyzed muscle contraction in living organisms by using thermodynamic potentials." DSB, XI, p. 446. / Riecke "conducted experiments on electrical conduction in metals for which he further developed a model of management by electrons began by Paul Drude. With the model, among other things, the decrease in conductivity could be explained with increase in temperature. Later he worked among others with electricity conduction in gases." Referencing a paper studying electricity and its applications of conductivity as related to the structure of atoms, in by Riecke and Meyer (1888), W.V. Farrar states, "It is now often remembered that the subsequent rapid development of "chemistry in space" forced organic chemists into some acute speculations about the possible complexity of elementary atoms." See: W.V. Farrar, "Chemistry in Space" and the complex atom. The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Jun. 1968), pp. 65-67.

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Publisher: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1893.

Year: 1893

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