Ludwig Boltzmann was born on 20th February, 1844. It was the night between Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday in Landstraße, a suburb of Vienna. On the following day he was christened Ludwig Eduard in the parish of St. Rochus and St. Sebastian. Boltzmann once said that the date and time of his birth were the reason for the frequently rapid changes of this spirits from frolic cheerfulness to deep grief.
Boltzmann grew up in a time of change. It was the time after the revolution of 1848, the time between ancient regime and modernity. Just as those years were characterized by new ideas, the area of physics experienced changes during the life of Boltzmann. It was the turn from Newton's classical worldview to the postclassical modern view of science, the dispute between idealism and materialism, between the rigid laws of society and cosmological order and the progressive ideas that we associate with the keyword "Darwinism".
available at the ARCOTEL Boltzmann for EUR 25.00 per piece
An exhibition of the Austrian Central Library for Physics
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