In thermodynamics, Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944) was an English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist notable for his 1928 book The Nature of the Physical World, in which, in his famous chapter four "The Running-Down of the Universe", he introduced a number of terms such as the time’s arrow (or arrow of time), entropy-clock, the “shuffling cards model of entropy", the association between entropy and beauty, among various famous thermodynamics quotes. [1]

The book resulted from a course of Gifford Lectures delivered at the University of Edinburgh in January to March 1927, whose focus was to treat the philosophical outcomes of the recent developments in the theory of relativity, quantum theory, and progress in the principles of thermodynamics. Being that both the course and the book were intended for general audiences, the popularity of many of its conceptions has had a great following. The coining and use of the neo-modern term “Entropy Law” by Romanian mathematical economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen beginning in 1970 is one of many examples. [2]

References
1. Eddington, Arthur. (1928). The Nature of the Physical World (ch. 4: "The Running-Down of the Universe", pgs. 63-86). Michigan: The University of Michigan Press.
2. (a) Arestis, Philip, and Sawyer, Malcolm C. (2002). A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, (section: Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas: 1906-1994, pgs. 217-225, pg. 224). Edward Elgar Publishing.
(b) Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas. (1971). The Entropy Law and the Economic Process. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

External links
● Arthur Eddington – Wikipedia.