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“In 1877 he published his paper “Probabilistic foundations of heat theory”, in which he formulated what Einstein later called the Boltzmann principle; the interpretation of the concept of entropy as a mathematically well-defined measure of what one can call the “disorder” of atoms, which had already appeared in his work of 1872, is here extended and becomes a general statement.”
― Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms
― Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms
“Entropy derives from the Greek “conversion”, “mutation”, “evolution”, but also “confusion” and “shame” (this latter meaning one finds in the writings of Hippocrates in the form ).”
― Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms
― Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms
“We note that occasionally the remark is made that what Carnot called heat was actually entropy, which is conserved in his cycle. Although it would be preposterous to say that Carnot discovered entropy, we may understand why his argument worked and why Clausius and Thomson were able to rescue his cycle and incorporate it in the new discipline. Essentially he saw that there was something that was conserved in reversible processes; this was not heat or caloric, however, but what was later called entropy.”
― Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms
― Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms
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