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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Kelvin was a prolific (if, to modern ears, sometimes rather pompous) writer, who took exposition seriously. Back in 1827 the British botanist Robert Brown (1773–1858) had seen under a microscope tiny grains (ejected by pollen) randomly jiggling around in water.

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