Thermodynamics as a science of symmetry

Foundations of Physics 4 (4):423-443 (1974)
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A new interpretation of thermodynamics is advanced; thermodynamics is the study of those properties of macroscopic matter that follow from the symmetry properties of physical laws, mediated through the statistics of large systems

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