Relevant Classical Works and Historical References

Frederick Wooten, Optical Properties of Solids, Academic Press, New York, 49, (1972).
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Fred Wooten: 10/30/2002 1:20 PM, Subject: My Book
Dear Roger,
     I'm sorry to be so long in responding, but I've been on the road
for the past six weeks and am just now catching up on email.
     Please feel free to put a pdf file of my book on your website.
In the unlikely event that some publisher may be interested in republishing the book sometime in the future, I might then have to ask you to remove it from your website. That seems extremely unlikely.
    Best wishes,
    Fred Wooten

B. Taylor, "Concerning the Ascent of Water Between Two Glass Plates", Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, 27, 538. c. xv, 131, (1712). Reproduced in R. Finn, Equilibrium Capillary Surfaces, Springer Verlag, New York, ISBN: 0387961747, (1986).

F. Hauksbee, " Account of the Experiment on the Ascent of Water Between Two Glass Plates, in a Hyperbolic Figure", Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, 27, 539. c. xiv, 131, (1712). Reproduced in R. Finn, Equilibrium Capillary Surfaces, Springer Verlag, New York, ISBN: 0387961747, (1986).

T. Young, "An Essay on the Cohesion of Fluids", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 95, 65-87, (1805).

P. R. Pujado, H. Chun, L. E. Scriven, "On the Attribution of an Equation of Capillarity to Young and Laplace", J. Colloid and Interface Science, 38, 662-3, (1972).

J. Thomson, "On Certain Curious Motions Observable at the Surfaces of Wine and Other Alcoholic Liquors" Phil. Mag, 10, 330-3, (1855).

J. W. Gibbs, Trans. "On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances", Connecticut Academy Transactions, 3:108-248, 343-524, (1875-7).

J. W. Gibbs, The Scientific Papers of J. Willard Gibbs: Thermodynamics, Ox Bow Press, (1993).

J. D. van der Waals, "The Thermodynamic Theory of Capillarity Under the Hypothesis of a Continuous Variation of Density", originally published in Dutch in Verhandel. Konink. Akad. Weten. Amsterdam, 1, 8, (1893), translation published by J. S. Rowlinson, Journal of Statistical Physics, 20, 200-244, (1979).

W. H. Keesom, "On the Deduction of the Equation of State From Boltzmann’s Entropy Principle", Communications Physical Laboratory University of Leiden Supplement, Ed. By H. Kamerlingh Onnes, Eduard Ijdo Printer, Leiden, Supplement 24a to No. 121-132, 3-20, (1912).

W. H. Keesom, "On the Deduction from Boltzmann’s Entropy Principle of the Second Virial-coefficient for Material Particles (in the Limit Rigid Spheres of Central Symmetry) which Exert Central Forces Upon Each Other and For Rigid Spheres of Central Symmetry Containing an Electric Doublet at Their Centers", Communications Physical Laboratory University of Leiden Supplement, Ed. By H. Kamerlingh Onnes, Eduard Ijdo Printer, Leiden, Supplement 24b to No. 121-132, 23-41, (1912).

W. H. Keesom, "On the Second Virial Coefficient for Di-atomic Gases", Communications Physical Laboratory University of Leiden Supplement, Ed. By H. Kamerlingh Onnes, Eduard Ijdo Printer, Leiden, Supplement 25 to No. 121-132, 3-19, (1912).

W. H. Keesom, "On the Second Virial Coefficient for Monatomic Gases and for Hydrogen Below the Boyle-point", Communications Physical Laboratory University of Leiden Supplement, Ed. By H. Kamerlingh Onnes, Eduard Ijdo Printer, Leiden, Supplement 24a to No. 121-132, 3-9, (1912).

P. J. W. Debye, "Die van der Waalsschen Kohäsionskräfte", Physik. Zeitschr., 21, 178-87, (1920), in German.

P. J. W. Debye, "Molekularkräfte und ihre Elektrische Deutung" Physik. Zeitschr., 22, 302-8, (1921).

F. London, "The General Theory of Molecular Forces," Trans. Faraday Soc., 33, 8-26, (1937).

F. London, "Zur Theorie und Systematik der Molekularkräfte", Z. Physik, 63, 245-79, (1930), in German.

Von R. Eisenschitz, F. London, "Über das Verhältnis der van der Waalsschen Kräfte zu den Homöopolaren Bindungskräften" Z. Physik, 60, 491-527, (1930), in German.

F. London, "Über einige Eigenschaften und Anwendungen der Molekularkräfte" Z. Phys. Chem. B11, 222-51, (1930), in German.H. C. Hamaker, "The London-Van der Waals Attraction between Spherical Particles," Physica, 4, 10, 1058-72, (1937).

H. B. G. Casimir, "On The Attraction of Two Perfectly Conducting Plates", Proc. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen, 51 793-5, (1948).

S. S. Schweber, QED and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Freeman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga, Princeton Series in Physics, Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, ISBN 0691033277, (1994).

W. Sellmeier, "II. Regarding the Sympathetic Oscillations Excited in Particles by Oscillations of the Ether and Their Feedback to the Latter, Particularly as a Means of Explaining Dispersion and its Anomalies", Annals of Physical Chemistry, 147, 525-54, (1872), in German.

See for example B. J. Hunt, The Maxwellians, Cornell History of Science, Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY, ISBN 0801482348, (1994).

P. J. Hahn, Oliver Heaviside: Sage in Solitude: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age", IEEE, ISBN 0879422386, (1988).

R. de L. Kronig, "On The Theory of Dispersion of X-Rays", J. Opt. Soc. Am., 12, 547-57, (1926).

C. J. Gorter, R. de L. Kronig, "On the Theory of Absorption and Dispersion in Paramagnetic and Dielectric Media", Physica III, 9, 1009-1020, (1936).

H. A. Kramers, "La Diffusion de la Lumière par les Atomes" Atti. Congr. Intern. Fis. Como., 2, 545-557, (1927).