Inventing Temperature

Inventing Temperature
Author: Hasok Chang
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2004-08-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0195171276


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The author presents simple yet challenging epistemic and technical questions about temperature-measuring instruments, and the complex web of abstract philosophical issues surrounding them. He also shows that many items of knowledge we take for granted are in fact spectacular achievements obtained after a great deal of innovative thinking.