Library Guides: History of Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics: Atomism Throughout History: Resources: History and Philosophy of TSM

Works about the History and Philosophy of TSM

Chance in physics : foundations and perspectives Contains an essay by Carlo Cercignani titled "The Rise of Statistical Mechanics".
Carlo Cercignani, The Rise of Statistical Mechanics
"Heat: Its measurement from Galileo to Lavoiser" by David V. Fenby. Contains a helpful distinction between "material" and "mechanical" theories of heat.
Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century by Alan Chalmers. From the open access Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Physics and chance : philosophical issues in the foundations of statistical mechanics / by Lawrence Sklar. Contains an extended "historical sketch" of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics.
Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics by Lawrence Sklar. From the open access Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Twentieth Century Physics, Volume 1, edited by Brown, Pais, and Pippard. See chapter 7 for 19th century overview.
Descartes among the Scholastics by Roger Ariew. Page 138 discusses Galileo and Bacon.
Christoph Meinel. Early Seventeenth-Century Atomism: Theory, Epistemology, and the Insufficiency of Experiment