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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... glass thermometer. 1665 Robert Boyle publishes New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, which dispels ancient myths and reveals many facts about the cold. 1703 1720 Guillaume Amontons Daniel Fahrenheit mathematically invents his ...
... glass thermometer. 1665 Robert Boyle publishes New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, which dispels ancient myths and reveals many facts about the cold. 1703 1720 Guillaume Amontons Daniel Fahrenheit mathematically invents his ...
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... glass tube containing water was left outside overnight, and the next morning showed ice on its external surface, that ice must have been formed by cold air permeating through the glass from inside to out. In a way few experimenters had ...
... glass tube containing water was left outside overnight, and the next morning showed ice on its external surface, that ice must have been formed by cold air permeating through the glass from inside to out. In a way few experimenters had ...
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Tom Shachtman. glass to break. To prevent that, he worked inside a house, where he immersed the bottom of the vessel in a mixture of snow and salt. This ensured that the freezing of the water inside the vessel would proceed from bottom ...
Tom Shachtman. glass to break. To prevent that, he worked inside a house, where he immersed the bottom of the vessel in a mixture of snow and salt. This ensured that the freezing of the water inside the vessel would proceed from bottom ...
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... glass flask with colored water, he suspended it upside down in a bowl of more colored water; when the temperature went up or down, the air contained in the bulb expanded or contracted, moving the column of water in the neck down or up ...
... glass flask with colored water, he suspended it upside down in a bowl of more colored water; when the temperature went up or down, the air contained in the bulb expanded or contracted, moving the column of water in the neck down or up ...
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... , telescopes (Ferdinand ground his own lenses), astrolabes, quadrants, calorimeters, microscopes, magnetic devices, and thermometers. One visitor re ported seeing "weather glasses" (barometers or thermometers) even in the.
... , telescopes (Ferdinand ground his own lenses), astrolabes, quadrants, calorimeters, microscopes, magnetic devices, and thermometers. One visitor re ported seeing "weather glasses" (barometers or thermometers) even in the.
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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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