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Recent research on the foundations of thermodynamics

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A later version of this paper appeared as an appendix in C. Truesdell's Rational Thermodynamics, second edition, Springer Verlag [1984].

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Coleman, B.D., Owen, D.R. (1986). Recent research on the foundations of thermodynamics. In: Categories in Continuum Physics. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1174. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0076936

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