The chronology of the thermodynamical laws was stated as follows by Peter William Atkins (The Second Law, Scientific American Library 1984):
"There are four laws. The third of them, the Second Law, was recongnized first; the first, the Zeroth Law, was formulated last; the First Law was second; the Third Law might not even be a law in the same sense as the others. Happily, the content of the laws is simpler than their chronology, which represents the difficulty of establishing properties of intangibles."
Last update Mittwoch, 8. April 2009