Inventing temperature: measurement and scientific progress
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Main Author: Chang, Hasok (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2004
Series:Oxford studies in philosophy of science
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Item Description: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
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 286 p.) ill
ISBN:0199835004
9780199835003
DOI:10.1093/0195171276.001.0001

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