Absolute Zero and the Conquest of ColdHMH, 12 dec 2000 - 272 pagina's “A lovely, fascinating book, which brings science to life.” —Alan Lightman Combining science, history, and adventure, Tom Shachtman “holds the reader’s attention with the skill of a novelist” as he chronicles the story of humans’ four-centuries-long quest to master the secrets of cold (Scientific American). “A disarming portrait of an exquisite, ferocious, world-ending extreme,” Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold demonstrates how temperature science produced astonishing scientific insights and applications that have revolutionized civilization (Kirkus Reviews). It also illustrates how scientific advancement, fueled by fortuitous discoveries and the efforts of determined individuals, has allowed people to adapt to—and change—the environments in which they live and work, shaping man’s very understanding of, and relationship, with the world. This “truly wonderful book” was adapted into an acclaimed documentary underwritten by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, directed by British Emmy Award winner David Dugan, and aired on the BBC and PBS’s Nova in 2008 (Library Journal). “An absorbing account to chill out with.” —Booklist |
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... boiled water will cool more rapidly than unboiled water, but they did not know why; boiling rids the water of carbon dioxide and other gases that otherwise retard the lowering of water temperature, an explanation the Greeks and Romans ...
... boiled water will cool more rapidly than unboiled water, but they did not know why; boiling rids the water of carbon dioxide and other gases that otherwise retard the lowering of water temperature, an explanation the Greeks and Romans ...
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... boiled water, and only if the temperature at which one began to chill the water was not too high. More recent Aristotelians, without testing the limitations of the data, had pyramided the hot-begets-cold-quicker notion into an elaborate ...
... boiled water, and only if the temperature at which one began to chill the water was not too high. More recent Aristotelians, without testing the limitations of the data, had pyramided the hot-begets-cold-quicker notion into an elaborate ...
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... boiling water? Precisely how much colder was ice than snow? How hot did dry wood have to become before it burst into flame? Thermoscopes could not answer these questions, but an attached mathematical scale might give some answers ...
... boiling water? Precisely how much colder was ice than snow? How hot did dry wood have to become before it burst into flame? Thermoscopes could not answer these questions, but an attached mathematical scale might give some answers ...
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... boiling points of pure alcohol, spirit of wine, and water; the heat of * The freezing point of water did become an acknowledged fixed point in the minds of scientists and instrument makers for many years, until it was determined in the ...
... boiling points of pure alcohol, spirit of wine, and water; the heat of * The freezing point of water did become an acknowledged fixed point in the minds of scientists and instrument makers for many years, until it was determined in the ...
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... boiling point of spirit, yet he also revealed why it was so difficult to establish any fixed point: "The spirit of ... boiling of mixtures of water and metals, and they also used ratios that smacked of the magical — for instance, he ...
... boiling point of spirit, yet he also revealed why it was so difficult to establish any fixed point: "The spirit of ... boiling of mixtures of water and metals, and they also used ratios that smacked of the magical — for instance, he ...
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4 Adventures in the Ice Trade
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5 The Confraternity of the Overlooked
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6 Through Heat to Cold
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7 Of Explosions and Mysterious Mists
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8 Painting the Map of Frigor
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10 The Fifth Step
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11 A Sudden and Profound Disappearance
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12 Three Puzzles and a Solution
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13 Mastery of the Cold
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9 Rare and Common Gases | |
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