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Kleinere Schriften und Briefe; nebst Mittheilungen aus seinem Leben. Herausgegeben von Jacob J. Weyrauch.
1893S13829Stuttgart:: J. G. Cotta 1893. 1893. 8vo. xvi 503 pp. 2 plates incl. portrait figs. index. Original navy cloth-backed pale-orange boards. Very good. First edition of this collection of "minor" papers by Mayer some of his letters etc. Another work also edited by Weyrauch Die Mechanik der Wärme 3rd ed. 1893 contained Mayer's major scientific papers. "In both works Weyrauch provides not only extensive nn. and commentary but also a thorough biography of Mayer." DSB. CONTENTS partial: Biography 1832-44 etc.; Das Santonin his dissertation; diary of his journey to the East Indies; correspondence with Carl Baur 1841-1844; correspondence with Wilhelm Griesinger 1842-1845; correspondence between Mayer & Gustav Reuschle 1848-1871 an "incident" with Otto Seyffer 1849-50 "In 1849 a young German physicist named Otto Seyffer published a brutal attack on Mayer's work declaring it to be a collection of unfounded speculations about forces of nature. More researchers piled on in other journals no doubt leaving Mayer to feel himself besieged and rejected by the scientific community." web-source etc. REFERENCES: DSB IX pp. 235-240; Hirsch IV 133. Poggendorff IV/2 977. J. G. Cotta, 1893. hardcover books
