1. A part of these lectures has been summarized and discussed by Gerhard Fasol, “Comments on some Manuscripts by Ludwig Boltzmann”, in Roman Sexl & John Blackmore (eds.), Ludwig Boltzmann Internationale Tagung anläßlich des 75. Jahrestages seines Todes 5.-8. Sept. 1981, Ausgewählte Abhandlungen (Braunschweig/Wiesbaden: Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, 1982), pp. 87–95.
2. For biographical information see E. Broda, Ludwig Boltzmann: Mensch, Physiker, Philosoph (Berlin: VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1957); English translation by L. Gay and E.Broda, Ludwig Boltzmann: Man, Physicist, Philosopher (Woodbridge, Conn., USA: Ox Bow Press, 1983).
3. C. Jungnickel and R. McCormmach, Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), vol.2, Chapters 16, 21–23; articles by Dieter Ramm, Paul Urban, Anne Kox, and Karl von Meyenn in Sexl & Blackmore (op. cit., note 1).
4. 2. "??ber die Bewegung der Electricit??t in krummen Fl??chen", Sitzungsberichte, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 52 (1866), 682-690. In the following notes I use the standard 19th-century abbreviation for this publication, Wien. Ber. The paper is reprinted in Boltzmann's Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen (Leipzig: Barth, 1909
5. 3. New York: Chelsea Pub. Co., 1968).