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Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress
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Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (July 9, 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0195171276 What is temperature, and how can we measure it correctly? These may seem like simple questions, but the most renowned scientists struggled with them throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. In Inventing Temperature, Chang examines how scientists first created thermometers; how they measured temperature [...]