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<p>This note offers an overview of how Josiah Willard Gibbs’s <i>Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics</i>, published simultaneously in London and New York in 1902, spread through European university libraries. Information gathered through direct contacts with numerous academic libraries reveals an unexpectedly rapid material diffusion beginning on April 1, 1902. This early propagation can be explained by several channels: presentation copies sent by Yale University to leading universities, personal mailings by Gibbs himself to prominent scientists, and the distribution of copies by the American publisher to major scientific journals.</p>

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The rapid arrival of Josiah Willard Gibbs’s Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics in European university libraries

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    2026年2月25日

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  • Hector Giacomini

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This note offers an overview of how Josiah Willard Gibbs’s Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, published simultaneously in London and New York in 1902, spread through European university libraries. Information gathered through direct contacts with numerous academic libraries reveals an unexpectedly rapid material diffusion beginning on April 1, 1902. This early propagation can be explained by several channels: presentation copies sent by Yale University to leading universities, personal mailings by Gibbs himself to prominent scientists, and the distribution of copies by the American publisher to major scientific journals.