Bernoulli, Jean

The calculations in this case are clearly analogous to those required to prove the Bernoulli theorem. In order to show the first part of the statement, all we have to do is to determine the maximum of Eq. (36), i.e., the minimum of Eq. (43), given the auxiliary condition of Eq. (45). Boltzmann makes use of the second half of the statement in all those cases when he calls the Maxwell velocity distribution overwhelmingly the most probable one." A more quantitative formulation and derivation of this part of the statement is sketched by Jeans in [2, 22-26] and in Dynamical Theory, 44-46 and 56. 

Even the great names of Becher and Stahl were hardly known although Jean Bernoulli s work on fermentation and Boerhaave s on fire were praised, the far greater views of Stahl on the same subjects existed only for a few chemists. The revolution which would raise chemistry to the rank it merits, and place it on a level with mathematical physics, can be accomplished only by a clever, enthusiastic, and bold chemist, who finds himself in a favourable position and profits by happy circumstances. Venel awaited the appearance of this new Paracelsus . He could hardly have hoped that, in so short a time, this role would be filled by his countryman, Lavoisier. ... 

We arrive, thus, in the first half of the 18th century. In this period, in spite of some relevant to the science of heat work by Isaak Newton and Jean Bernoulli s son Daniel, the major contribution comes from Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), professor of Medicine, Chemistry and Botany at... 

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