Image: James Clerk Maxwell - Thermodynamic Maxwell surface - sketch 8 July 1875

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Description: Maxwell surface (3D sketch 8 July 1875, thermodynamics) for the states (axes: entropy (x), volume (y), and energy (z) of the body) of a substance (water). “I enclosed a rough sketch [adjacent] of the lines of Gibbs’ surface, co-ordinates volume [x], entropy [y], energy [z], in an imaginary substance in which the principle features of the substance can be represented on a convenient scale.” — James Maxwell (1875), Letter to James Thomson, Jul 8, in The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell (pgs. 230-31). Volume 3; 1874-1879.
Title: James Clerk Maxwell - Thermodynamic Maxwell surface - sketch 8 July 1875
Credit: Eoht.info History of thermodynamic surfaces
Author: James Clerk Maxwell
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