The PhD thesis of Kamerlingh Onnes
This thesis by Kamerlingh Onnes is available here as a series of PDF files, each of which is maybe about 1MB in size. The last three seem to be the most interesting; the first nine are mostly concerned with a mass of mathematics which, while certainly ground-breaking in its day, is now rather obsolete in its presentation. Click Here for an illuminating appreciation of this thesis in English, by Schultz-Dubois who was actually able to read it. Anyway, here they are, all in Dutch for the moment: Click Here for a PDF file of the first part (the preamble). Click Here for a PDF file of the second part. Click Here for a PDF file of the third part. Click Here for a PDF file of the fourth part. Click Here for a PDF file of the fifth part. Click Here for a PDF file of the sixth part. Click Here for a PDF file of the seventh part. Click Here for a PDF file of the eighth part. Click Here for a PDF file of the ninth part. Click Here for a PDF file of the tenth part (the description of the experimental setup). Click Here for a PDF file of the eleventh part (the description of the results). Click Here for a PDF file of the twelfth part (the figures). The world awaits the arrival of a public-spirited figure who will perform the translation into English! ---ooo000ooo--- Back to the main prior art page. Back to the website main page.
