Zur Theorie des Gesetzes der Energieverteilung im Normalspectrum

Edition

Scan of the Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, Zweiter Jahrgang (Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1900), no. 17, pp. 237-245, digitized by Google from the Harvard College Library copy (Internet Archive, verhandlungende01goog, 600 ppi). No proofread transcription was found (German Wikisource has only the later paper in Annalen der Physik 4, 1901): the text was transcribed line by line from the scan and checked word by word against it, with the OCR of the Internet Archive as a cross-check. The title, “von M. Planck.” and “(Vorgetragen in der Sitzung vom 14. December 1900.)” are in the header; the cross-reference “(Vgl. oben S. 235.)” to the minutes of the session is left out; running heads and page numbers are left out and hyphens at line ends are rejoined. The footnotes, numbered from 1 on each page of the scan, are numbered 1 to 12 and follow the text. Names in small caps stay in small caps. Spelling, punctuation and misprints are kept, among them the exponents 8 of nu and c in the formula for u dnu of p. 242, where 3 is meant (checked on the bilevel scan: both glyphs have two closed bowls, while the superscript 3 of c^3 on p. 241 and of 10^23 on p. 244 has an open lower bowl, and their bitmaps occur nowhere else in their JBIG2 symbol group, so they are not a compression artifact), and “die einzige ist. welche” in the note of p. 243. The equations are set with KaTeX, and the example of a complexion as a two-row array.

Rights

Max Planck died on 4 October 1947, so his works are in the public domain in France since 1 January 2018 (70 years counted from 1 January 1948). The paper was published in 1900, before 1 January 1931, so it is in the public domain in the United States.