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Inventing temperature : measurement and scientific progress /

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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 af...

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Main Author: Chang, Hasok
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2004.
Series:Oxford studies in philosophy of science.
Subjects:
Temperature measurements > History.
Thermometers > History.
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
Science > Philosophy.
Thermométrie > Histoire.
Thermomètres > Histoire.
Interdisciplinarité.
SCIENCE > Mechanics > Thermodynamics.
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Science > Philosophy
Temperature measurements
Thermometers
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