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IT is quite refreshing to come across a real “crank” among the sober Germans. As might be expected, there is a good deal of irregular metaphysics involved in the lucubrations of a German “crank.” One would not, however, expect an entire ignorance of the first principles of the mathematics involved. The author of this hardly sufficiently ingenious to be even curious work begins by objecting to the well-known thermodynamic equation for perfect gases—
Richtigstellung der in bisheriger Fassung unrichtigen Mechanischen Wärnetheorie und Grundzüge einer allgemeinen Theorie der Aetherbewegungen.
Von Albert R. von Miller-Hauenfels, Professor a. D. in Graz. Pp. 256. (Wien: Manz'sche k.k. Hof-Verlags-und Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1889.)
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G., G. Professor Von “Crank”. Nature 40, 244 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040244a0
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