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"This book traces in detail the invention and evolution of the thermometer... Fully documented, well written, and handsomely designed and illustrated... The book will be of interest to laymen and is a standard reference work for historians of science." -- Library Journal
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This history of the thermometer includes controversy about its invention, the story of different scales, Fahrenheit and centigrade, and the history of the gradual scientific then popular understanding of the concept of temperature. Not until 1800 did people interested in thermometers begin to see clearly what they were measuring, and the impetus for improving thermometry came largely from study of the weather--the liquid-in-glass thermometer became the meteorologist's instrument before that of the chemist or physicist. This excellent introductory study follows the development of indicating and recording thermometers until recent times, emphasizing meteorological applications.
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The opposition of "hot" and "cold," like that of "dry" and "moist," is an inevitable by-product of our sense of touch. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sling thermometer, thermometric liquid, air thermoscope, metallic thermometer, air thermometer, sealed thermometer, maximum thermometer, thermometric substance, louvered screen, electrical thermometers, spirit thermometers, minimum thermometers, other thermometers, meteorological instruments, two thermometers, true temperature, weather glass Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Society, Grand Duke, Anders Celsius, Robert Hooke, Science Museum, John Patrick, Kew Observatory, The History of the Barometer, Accademia del Cimento, British Association, Henry Cavendish, Balthasar de Monconys, Courtesy of the Wellcome Trustees, Des Noyers, Low Countries, Observatoire de Paris, Palais des Arts, Paris Observatory, Philosophical Transactions, Angelo Bellani, Signal Service, Thermographs Based, Annuaire Soc, Balfour Stewart, Christiaan Huygens New!
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The opposition of "hot" and "cold," like that of "dry" and "moist," is an inevitable by-product of our sense of touch. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sling thermometer, thermometric liquid, air thermoscope, metallic thermometer, air thermometer, sealed thermometer, maximum thermometer, thermometric substance, louvered screen, electrical thermometers, spirit thermometers, minimum thermometers, other thermometers, meteorological instruments, two thermometers, true temperature, weather glass Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Society, Grand Duke, Anders Celsius, Robert Hooke, Science Museum, John Patrick, Kew Observatory, The History of the Barometer, Accademia del Cimento, British Association, Henry Cavendish, Balthasar de Monconys, Courtesy of the Wellcome Trustees, Des Noyers, Low Countries, Observatoire de Paris, Palais des Arts, Paris Observatory, Philosophical Transactions, Angelo Bellani, Signal Service, Thermographs Based, Annuaire Soc, Balfour Stewart, Christiaan Huygens New!
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- The History of the Barometer by W. E. Knowles Middleton on page 28, page 46, and page 63
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- The Physical World of the Greeks (Philosophy & Public Affairs Reader) by Samuel Sambursky on page 1
- Philosophical Experiments and (Cass Library of Science Classics) by Robert Hooke on page 50
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- Robert Hooke: Tercentennial Studies by Michael Cooper in Back Matter
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