 This book, together with Gilbert N. Lewis and Merle Randall's 1923 textbook "Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances", are said to be responsible for the inception of the modern science of chemical thermodynamics.Other books included "Statistical Thermodynamics" with Ralph Fowler (1939), and "Thermodynamics – an Advanced Treatment for Chemists and Physicists" .In the preface to this book, he states that no thermodynamics book written before 1929 even attempts an account of any of the following matters