In science, famous publications are a number of memoirs, books, and textbook that have been instrumental in the development of chemistry and thermodynamics. The following table lists famous core publications particularly germane to the subjects of human chemistry and human thermodynamics. Short articles on selections of these publications are listed in the “Wiki pages” file subsection (adjacent) to this header page; others are listed below.

List
The following is the work-in-progress list of famous hmolscience-related publications. Highlighted publications indicate pure classic works on human thermodynamics:

Date	Famous Publication	Significance

450BC	Fragments of Aphorisms by: Empedocles	Introduced the four elements and two force model of everything; wherein, in his chemical aphorisms, friends were said to mix like water and wine, and enemies separate like oil and water.
280BC	Letter To Herodotus by: Epicurus	Gives a nutshell synopsis of his matter + void theory of everything (Ѻ); a staple publication of Thomas Jefferson's philosophy.
75BC	On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) by: Lucretius	Outlined the basics of the atomic theory as developed by Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus in which the universe, and humans, are comprised of and worked by the operation of atoms and voids. The version shown is a 1947 three-volume set comprised of prolegomena, text, translation, and commentary by Cyril Bailey. (Ѻ)

1616	Chemical Wedding by: Johannes Andreae
1620	Elements of Chemistry by: Herman Boerhaave	Established Boerhaave's law; later used by Lavoisier.
1660	New Experiments: Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects: Made, for the most part, in a New Pneumatical Engine by: Robert Boyle	In defense of this publication, found in the 1662 second edition, contains Boyle's law, a forerunner to the ideal gas law.
1686	Principia: the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by: Isaac Newton	Established the laws of motion: first law of motion, second law of motion, and third law of motion.
1690	A New Method of Obtaining Very Great Motive Powers at Small Cost by: Denis Papin	Laid out the designs for the steam engine and described the outline of the Carnot cycle.
1718	"Query 31" by: Isaac Newton	Seeded the logic of affinity chemistry; used by French chemist Étienne Geoffroy to make the world's first affinity table.
1718	Table of Affinities Between Different Substances By: Étienne Geoffroy	Put the verbal chemical hierarchy reaction power logic of Newton's Query 31 into the form of the world's first affinity table (see: Geoffroy's affinity table).
1738	Hydrodynamica by: Daniel Bernoulli	Defined pressure and verbally stated the precepts of the ideal gas law.
1775	A Dissertation on Elective Attractions by: Torbern Bergman	The founding textbook of chemical affinity; used by Goethe in his human elective afffinity theory.
1777	“Newton in Senegal” by: Jean Sales	A ridicule of soul-based morality via social Newton logic.
1782	“On Friendship” by: William Cowper	Described the mixing of courtier and patriot to that of salts with lemon juice, both resulting in an effervescence; one of the first reaction-stylized Empedocles chemical aphorism.
1787	Elements of Chemistry by: Antoine Lavoisier	Introduced the world, and particularly Sadi Carnot, to caloric theory.
1796	“Third Lecture on Anatomy” by: Johann Goethe	Discusses chemical affinity for the first time.
1798	"An Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction" by: Benjamin Thomson	Laid question to Lavoisier's caloric theory; thus initiating the postulate of the mechanical equivalent of heat.
1809	Elective Affinities by: Johann Goethe	Founded the science of human chemistry by explaining the mechanisms of human relationships, e.g. marriage, friendships, daily work, occupation, and society, etc., in terms the logic of elective affinity (or chemical affinity A) and affinity reactions (chemical reactions).
1824	Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire by: Sadi Carnot	Initiated the science of thermodynamics with its description of the Carnot cycle.
1829	Calculation of the Effect of Machines by: Gustave Coriolis	Mathematically defined work and kinetic energy.
1834	“Memoir on the Motive Power of Fire” by: Émile Clapeyron	Introduced physicists (particularly Thomson and Clausius) to Carnot's Reflections.
1840	“The Establishment and Development of the Idea of Chemical Affinity” by: William Whewell
c.1845	"The Mathematician in Love" by: William Rankine	Gives the first ever equation of love in proto-thermodynamic terms.
1845	“On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat” by: James Joule	Established the mechanical equivalent of heat.
1848	“On an Absolute Thermometric Scale founded on Carnot’s Theory of the Motive Power of Heat, and Calculated from Regnault’s Observations.” by: William Thomson	Introduced the absolute temperature scale.
1849	“An Account of Carnot’s Theory of the Motive Power of Heat; with Numerical Results Deduced from Regnault’s Experiments on Steam” by: William Thomson	Introduced Clausius to the difficulties inherent in Carnot's principle.
1850	"On the Moving Force of Heat and the Laws of Heat which may be Deduced Therefrom" by: Rudolf Clausius	Began to lay the foundations for the science of thermodynamics (mechanical theory of heat).
1851	“On the Dynamical Theory of Heat" by: William Thomson	Contains the Kelvin-statement of the second law.
1852	“On a Universal Tendency in Nature to the Dissipation of Mechanical Energy” by: William Thomson	Introduced dissipation and energy to the lay public; and established the law of dissipation.
1855	Force and Matter by: Ludwig Buchner
1857	"On the Nature of the Motion which we call Heat" by: Rudolf Clausius	Initiated kinetic theory of gases and later the development of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution.
1859	A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by: William Rankine	First textbook on thermodynamics.
1859	On the Origin of Species by: Charles Darwin	Situated the theory of evolution as an upward process.
1865	The Mechanical Theory of Heat by: Rudolf Clausius	Founded the science of thermodynamics.
1868	Philosophical Implications of Thermodynamics by: Gustave Hirn	First book to address the philosophical ramifications of the newly-formed universal science of thermodynamics; Hirn's work is that to which the term 'human thermodynamics' was first used (1893).
1872	"Further Studies on the Thermal Equilibrium of Gas Molecules" by: Ludwig Boltzmann	Contained the first explicit probabilistic expression, the H-theorem, for the entropy of an ideal gas.
1874	“The Mathematician in Love” by: William Rankine	A equation of love containing poem about love being a type of thermodynamic potential.
1876	On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances by: Willard Gibbs	Founded the science of chemical thermodynamics.
1877	“On a Relation between the Second Law of Thermodynamics and Probabilities” by: Ludwig Boltzmann	Contains the origins of proportionality equation between S and log W (S = k ln W).
1878	“A Paradoxical Ode” by: James Maxwell	Maxwell's final private thoughts about the relationship of science and religion, choice and chance, death and eternity.
1881	Outline of a Mechanics of Society by: Eduard Sacher	One of the first explicit “social mechanics” treatises, wherein, based on the work of Robert Mayer and Rudolf Clausius, physics and thermodynamics concepts, such as kinetic energy, the mechanical equivalent of heat, principle of the transmission of work, are used to outline a theory of "rational economics".
1882	"The Thermodynamics of Chemical Processes" by: Hermann Helmholtz	Showed that free energy is the measure of affinity.
1884	Studies in Chemical Dynamics by: Jacobus van't Hoff	Defined affinity as the maximum external work done by the chemical reaction at constant temperature and volume
1886	"The Second Law of Thermodynamics" by: Ludwig Boltzmann	Introduced the life is a struggle for entropy riddle.
1887	The Doctrine of Energy by: Georg Helm	First book to contain a chapter devoted to the application of energetics (and thermodynamics) in sociology and economics.
1888	The Will to Power: An Attempt at a Revaluation of All Values by: Friedrich Nietzsche	A collection of 1067 draft notes aimed, supposedly, at a thermodynamics based reformulation of all values; claimed by some to be the prolegomenon outline of his ideas to his envisioned magnum opus.
1893	"The Scientific Work of Gustav Adolph Hirn" by: Bryan Donkin	The term "human thermodynamics" was coined in it.
1894	“Among the Bards” by: John Spollon
1895	“A Project for Scientific Psychology” by: Sigmund Freud	Outlined of a chemical thermodynamics based psychology; the Helmholtz terms 'bound energy' and 'unbound energy' were first employed in a psychological sense.
1898	Essay on Social Mechanics by: Leon Winiarski	The first paper on human chemical thermodynamics; based sociology on the Clausius inequality, according to which “a social aggregate is nothing but a system of points, i.e. individuals, who are in perpetual movement of approaching or withdrawing from one another.”
1899	Lessons on Social Movement by: Maurice Hauriou	Explains large scale social movements, i.e. gross aspects of business, social events, states of a society, etc., in terms of pure thermodynamics, using Carnot efficiency, Mayer's conservation of energy, and Clausius' entropy, etc., discussed in the guise of mechanism and reaction.
1900	"The Teaching of Pure Political Economics and Social Mechanics in Switzerland" by: Leon Winiarski	The first article to outline (and advocate) the teaching of a course on applied thermodynamics in sociology, politics, and economics at the University of Geneva (1894-1900).
1901	“On the Law of Distribution of Energy in the Normal Spectrum” by: Max Planck	Introduced the “energy element”, launching quantum mechanics, solved the ultraviolet catastrophe, applied Boltzmann’s 1872 H-theorem version of entropy, in the form of S = k log W, to black body radiation, situated the principle of elementary disorder.
1905	"Affinity Lecture" by: Wilhelm Ostwald	Did a Goethe to Gibbs affinity history lecture.
1910	“Monistic Sunday Sermons” by: Wilhelm Ostwald	A series of 60 plus sermons or lectures on how energy-based monism replaces god-based theism, and the repercussions and details of this view; a type of natural science based atheism Sunday school, so to say, devoid of any supernatural suppositions.
1910	A Letter to American Teachers of History by: Henry Adams	Argued that the teaching of the second law in history courses (history thermodynamics) should be mandatory.
1912	The Energetic Imperative by: Wilhelm Ostwald	Introduced the subject he called "anthropic physics", based on the energetic imperative, translated later into the thermodynamic imperative and the translated rule-of-thumb "waste not free energy" (William Bayliss, 1915)
1912	Treatise on General Sociology by: Vilfredo Pareto	A "construction of a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry."
1914	Human Chemistry by: William Fairburn	First booklet on the science of human chemistry; viewing people as "human chemical elements" with ideas on human entropy, affinities, reactions of individuals, etc.
1914	“The European War” by: Eugene Roeber	Gives a chemical engineering view of WWI (28 Jul 1914 – 11 Nov 1918), wherein he stated that WWI was a gigantic chemical reaction governed by the second law, wherein people’s free will becomes like that of the will of “free” ions of dissociation theory; that entropy will increase as the war goes; that the end result will be a new Europe closer to absolute zero of temperature.
1923	Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances by: Gilbert Lewis	Made the obtuse concepts of Gibbs' Equilibrium readily available to the chemists.
1925	The Animate and the Inanimate by: William Sidis	An attempt at a reconciliation of the second law with animated life on the premise of entropy reversal.
1925	Elements of Physical Biology by: Alfred Lotka	Attempted a reversible heat engine deconstruct of systems of interacting evolving biological species.
1927	"Transmission of Information" by: Ralph Hartley	Introduced the logarithmic model $H = n \log s \,$ for information, where H is the amount of information associated with n selections of s possible signals (0s or 1s).
1929	“On the Decrease in Entropy in a Thermodynamic System by the Intervention of Intelligent Beings” by: Leo Szilard	Disposed of Maxwell's demon via showing that the information collection abilities of the demon would require energy.
1933	Modern Thermodynamics by the Methods of Willard Gibbs by: Edward Guggenheim	The second book to distill Gibbs' Equilibrium.
1938	Man on His Nature by: Charles Sherrington	Parlay into the defunct theory of life position.
1938	The Phenomenon of Man by: Pierre Teilhard	Attempts a reconciliation synthesis of evolution, the second law, consciousness, and religion.
1941	“Metabolic Generation and Utilization of Phosphate Bond Energy” by: Fritz Lipmann	Presented the theory of free energy coupling in the context of phosphate bond energy use.
1941	“The Story of the Contented Molecule” by: Quaker State Motor Oil	Empedocles-style children's parable.
1944	What is Life? by: Erwin Schrödinger	Introduced the lay world to the simplified postulate that life is something that "feeds on negative entropy".
1948	We Human Chemicals by: Thomas Dreier	A "soft" storyteller like version human chemistry and how people are chemicals who react together in various ways.
1952	The Next Million Years by: C.G. Darwin	The first book to use the terms "human molecule" and "human thermodynamics" in one theory
1955	“It’s a Chemical Reaction, That’s All” By: Cole Porter	A song, based on the "love is a chemical reaction" scene from the 1939 film Ninotchka, turned Broadway musical, turned MGM film Silk Stockings, themed on during the lead female character states that a leading Russian scientist has “proved that physical attraction is purely electrochemical”, that she has worked for 30-years on this proof, concluding in the end that this is a fact of science and “facts are facts”, after which the following song ensues: When the electromagnetic of the he-male Meets the electromagnetic of the female, If right away she should say, "This is the male!" It's a chemical reaction, that's all.
1956	Thermodynamics of Humans by: Mehdi Bazargan	One of the first books to describe human existence and function using thermodynamics formulations.
1956	“The Thermodynamic Activity of the Male Housefly” by: Kaj Lang	A spoof article on anyone who cited Schrodinger's What is Life, scaled up to the fly level, and or Alfred Lotka stylized physical chemistry methods applied at the insect to animal interaction scale.
1957	"Free Energies of Formation from the Elements" in: Energy Transformations in Living Matter (by: Hans Krebs and Hans Kornberg) by: Keith Burton	Lists free energy of formation values ΔGfº for about 100 bioorganic species of biochemical reactions, able to make predictions on reactions that had not yet occurred.
1971	“Chemical Thermodynamics in the Real World” by: Frederick Rossini	Argued, using the combined law and equilibrium constant, that the interplay between enthalpy and entropy explains the paradox between freedom and security in society.
1971	The Entropy Law by: Nicholas Georgescu	Introduced entropy to the economists.
1972	"Thermodynamics of Evolution" by: Ilya Prigogine, Gregoire Nicolis, Agnes Babloyantz	An attempt at a nonequilibrium thermodynamics explanation of evolution.
1977	Self-Organization in Non-Equilibrium Systems: From Dissipative Structures to Order Through Fluctuations by: by: Ilya Prigogine and Gregoire Nicolis,	Introduced the world to the view that life is a far-from-equilibrium dissipative structure.
1978	"On the Thermodynamics of Biological Evolution" by: Georgi Gladyshev	Outlined a Gibbsian thermodynamics view of evolution.
1979	"The Social Thermodynamics of Ilya Prigogine" by: Wil Lepkowski	One of the first articles devoted to the prospect of using thermodynamics to understand social processes.
1984	Order Out of Chaos by: Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers	Introduced the lay world to the “dissipative structure” theory of bifurcations and fluctuations.
1987	New Dimensions in Sociology: a Physico-Chemical Approach to Human Behavior by: Mirza Beg	The first basic textbook on explicit physicochemical sociology; albeit corrupted to some extent via the implicit assumption that Gibbs energy, the driving force of change, is the will of Allah.
1987	Goethe’s Elective Affinity and the Chemistry of its Time by: Jeremy Adler	The first book to attempt to unravel the chemists and affinity chemistry behind human chemical reaction theory of Goethe's Elective Affinities.
1992	"Human Molecules" by: Alan Nelson	Established the postulate that "economic agents" should be considered as "human molecules", according to which concepts from thermodynamics should apply.
1997	Thermodynamic Theory of the Evolution of Living Beings by: Georgi Gladyshev	The first book to explain evolution via changes in Gibbs free energy.
1997	“In Defense of Thermodynamics: an Animate Analogy” by: Sture Nordholm	Outlined the subject of "animate thermodynamics", the thermodynamics of animate matter and the animate world.
1998	“Human Societies: a Curious Application of Thermodynamics” by: Erich Muller	Prototype article for the 2005 launching of the Journal of Human Thermodynamics; the Muller dispersion force and Muller stability ratio are based on this paper.
2000	“The Physics of Relationships” by: Christopher Hirata
2001	"The Thermodynamics of Love" by: David Hwang	A lighthearted discussion on the Gibbsian thermodynamics of human relationships from a human chemical reaction point of view.
2001	“Humans, All Too Chemical” by: Kaspar Bott
2002	“Chemistry in the Work of Goethe” by: Volker Wiskamp
2002	Ecological Stoichiometry: the Biology of the Elements from Molecules to the Biosphere by: Robert Sterner and James Elser	Contains first published calculation for the human molecular formula for a human molecule; i.e. the Sterner-Elser human molecular formula: H375,000,000O132,000,000C85,700,000N6,430,000Ca1,500,000P1,020,000S206,000Na183,000K177,000 Cl127,000Mg40,000Si38,600Fe2,680Zn2,110Cu76I14Mn13F13Cr7Se4Mo3Co1
2004	"Chemical Affinity in 1806" by: Tominaga Keii	Chapter sub-section which discusses Goethe's human elective affinities in the context of modern chemical thermodynamics.
2007	Human Chemistry (ch. 16: Human Thermodynamics) by: Libb Thims	The first textbook on human chemistry (ch. 16: human thermodynamics); expounding on the view of systems of humans as Carnot cycle driven thermodynamic systems of chemically reactive human molecules.
2008	The Human Molecule by: Libb Thims	The first book on the history of the concept of the "human molecule" the central component of a human thermodynamic system. The photo shown is a screenshot of an Issuu.com stack of books on "reality" in which Thims' The Human Molecule is one of the top 39 books on the subject of what is real.
2009	Wealth, Energy, and Human Values: the Dynamics of Decaying Civilizations from Ancient Greece to America by: Thomas Wallace	Applies physical chemistry logic, i.e. reactions, dynamics, mechanisms, transition states, etc., to the explanation of the historical growth and decline of civilizations, using concepts such as reaction equations, A + B → C + D, Le Chatelier’s principle, and most importantly the Gibbs equation, ΔG = ΔH – TΔS, which, as he says, 'determines whether processes conducted by society will take place'.

Discussion
Among these, the 1923 textbook Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances, by American physical chemists Gilbert Lewis and Merle Randall, has been called "the world's most quoted scientific book" and among schools of thermodynamics it is the core book of the Lewis school. In the reference section to thermodynamics books and textbooks it is the certainly the most referenced [1]

In mechanical engineering community, it is the view of the MIT school of thermodynamics, particularly according to Italian engineer Gian Beretta, that the 1965 Principles of General Thermodynamics by George Hatsopoulos and Joseph Keenan is more referenced than that of Lewis and Randall. [2]

In the physics community, the 1985 textbook Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics by American physicist Herbert Callen is very popular and is likely the most-referenced modern statistical thermodynamics book. [3] Other famous publications having a direct bearing or influence on human thermodynamics are listed below. Of these, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger's 1944 book What is Life? is one of the most references thermodynamics book in the non-thermodynamics community.

See also
● Famous publications by age
● Most-referenced thermodynamics publication

References
1. (a) Angrist, Stanley W. and Helper, Loren G. (1967). Order and Chaos – Laws of Energy and Entropy, (pg. 27: "most quoted"). New York: Basic Books.
(b) The "most-referenced" book in the reference sections of all of the books in American chemical engineer Libb Thims' 200+ thermodynamics book collection is Lewis and Randall's Thermodynamics.
2. Email communication between Gian Beretta and Libb Thims in circa 2006.
3. (a) Note: the popularity of the 1985 Herbert Callen textbook Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics, the second edition to the 1960 textbook Thermodynamics: an Introduction to the Physical Theories of Equilibrium Thermostatics and Irreversible Thermodynamics, is due in large part to the popularity of Callen’s 1951 paper “Irreversibility and Generalized Noise”, written with Ted A. Welton, which by 1955 had become a “citation classic”, having been cited in over 370 publications.
(b) Staff writer. (1985). “This Week’s Citation Classic”, Current Contents, No. 1, Jan. 07.