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LONDON. Physical Society, April 24.—Captain W. de W. Abney, President, in the chair.—A paper by Mr. R. A. Lehfeld, on symbolism in thermodynamics, was, in the absence of the author, read by the Secretary. The author proposes a system of about twenty-four separate symbols for the different quantities in thermodynamics. Prof. Silvanus Thompson said he was not at all favourably impressed by the symbols proposed. In particular, it was becoming usual to restrict the use of Greek letters to the representation of specific quantities or angles, and the author's proposal seemed in this way a retrograde step. Prof. Perry said he did not care for the suggested symbols.
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Societies and Academies. Nature 53, 623–624 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053623a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/053623a0