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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... devices as a "perpetual-motion" apparatus, a self-regulating oven, a magic lantern, and a thunder-and-lightning machine. That Drebbel billed himself to James as a magician, not a scientist, shines through in a letter the Dutchman sent ...
... devices as a "perpetual-motion" apparatus, a self-regulating oven, a magic lantern, and a thunder-and-lightning machine. That Drebbel billed himself to James as a magician, not a scientist, shines through in a letter the Dutchman sent ...
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... some marvelous devices. Born at Alkmaar in the north of Holland in 1572 to a landowning family, Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel had little formal schooling. For many years he remained unable to read or write in Winter in Summer 5.
... some marvelous devices. Born at Alkmaar in the north of Holland in 1572 to a landowning family, Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel had little formal schooling. For many years he remained unable to read or write in Winter in Summer 5.
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... device Drebbel made at Eltham did not produce perpetual motion, of course, since that is impossible, but according to the contemporary account of Thomas Tymme, a professor of divinity who thought it wondrous, this was a clock with a ...
... device Drebbel made at Eltham did not produce perpetual motion, of course, since that is impossible, but according to the contemporary account of Thomas Tymme, a professor of divinity who thought it wondrous, this was a clock with a ...
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... devices in exchange for his supper, especially after 1618, when circumstances combined to spur James to submit to a new regime of austerity and curb his prodigious household spending. In 1620 Cornelis Drebbel was forty-eight, and ...
... devices in exchange for his supper, especially after 1618, when circumstances combined to spur James to submit to a new regime of austerity and curb his prodigious household spending. In 1620 Cornelis Drebbel was forty-eight, and ...
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... devices they could not fathom, placed near the bases of the walls, and perhaps for guidance up to the white ceiling, partially blackened with soot from the tens of thousands of candles burned in the chamber over the centuries. Shortly ...
... devices they could not fathom, placed near the bases of the walls, and perhaps for guidance up to the white ceiling, partially blackened with soot from the tens of thousands of candles burned in the chamber over the centuries. Shortly ...
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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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