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... since the (modern) definition of entropy is probabilistic, how
did the early thermodynamicists envisage it? My recollection is that
Boltzmann was so clever precisely because he came up with the
statistical interpretation of the pre-existing concept. Was it a
question of "rigging" something to "explain" the Clausius and Kelvin
versions of the Second Law?