1. H.B. Callen, Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics, Wiley, New York, 1960.
2. S.R. de Groot, P. Mazur, Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1959.
3. For a historical survey see: S.G. Brush, The Kind of Motion We Call Heat, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1976; M. Klein, The development of Boltzmann’s statistical ideas, in: E.G.D. Cohen, W. Thirring (Eds.), The Boltzmann Equation, Acta Physica Austriaca Suppl. X, Vienna, 1973, p. 53.
4. For a collection of basic papers from the second half of the nineteenth century on the subject (in English Trans.), see: S.G. Brush, Kinetic Theory, vols. 1 and 2, Pergamon, Elmsford, NY, 1965–1966; The apparently little known 1874 article by W. Thomson (Lord Kelvin), The kinetic theory of the dissipation of energy, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 8, 1874, pp. 325–328, reprinted there, is highly recommended.
5. L. Boltzmann, Vorlesungen über Gastheorie, 2 vols., Barth, Leipzig, 1896, 1898 (English Trans.: S.G. Brush, Lectures on Gas Theory, Cambridge University Press, London, 1964, reprinted Dover, 1995).