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Chapter 5
1. For what concerns the content of this and the fol lowing chapter,
see P. GLANSDORFF and I. PRIGOGINE, Thermodynamic Theory
of Structure, Stability and Fluctuations (New York: John Wiley
& Sons, 1971) and G. NICOLls and I. PRIGOGINE, Self-Organization
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Sons, 1977), where further references may be found.
2. R NIETZSCHE, Der Wille zur Macht, Siimtliche Werke (Stuttgart:
Kroner, 1964), aphorism 630.
3. Which precise content can be given to the general law of entropy
growth? For a theoretician physicist such as de Donder, chemical
activity, which appeared obscure and inaccessible to the rational
approach of mechanics, was mysterious enough to
become the synonym of the irreversible process. Thus chemistry,
whose question physicists had never truly answered, and the
new enigma of irreversibility came to join in a challenge not to be
ignored anymore. See Th. De Donder, L' Affinite (Paris:
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5. For more details concerning chemical oscillations, see A.
WINFREE, "Rotating Chemical Reactions," Scientific Amer·
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6. A. GoLDBETER and G. Nicous, ''An Allosteric Model with
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in Theoretical Biology, Vol. 4 (1976), pp. 65-160; A. GOLDBETER
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