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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... physicist Robert Boyle would partially comprehend what this demonstration accomplished, writing that "Drebbel conceived that it is not the whole body of the air, but a certain quintessence . . . or spirituous part of it that makes it ...
... physicist Robert Boyle would partially comprehend what this demonstration accomplished, writing that "Drebbel conceived that it is not the whole body of the air, but a certain quintessence . . . or spirituous part of it that makes it ...
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... physics and chemistry. The advance of such knowledge in turn depended on social change, which after a thousand years of stasis had become the order of the day in the seventeenth century. Partly owing to the Protestant challenge to ...
... physics and chemistry. The advance of such knowledge in turn depended on social change, which after a thousand years of stasis had become the order of the day in the seventeenth century. Partly owing to the Protestant challenge to ...
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... physics and chemistry. Oxford colleagues ribbed him for pursuing chemistry, which "professed to cure no disease but that of ignorance." His chemical research also incensed the Dutch rationalist philosopher Benedict Spinoza, who ...
... physics and chemistry. Oxford colleagues ribbed him for pursuing chemistry, which "professed to cure no disease but that of ignorance." His chemical research also incensed the Dutch rationalist philosopher Benedict Spinoza, who ...
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... physics and chemistry, that Boyle eclipsed Hobbes in natural philosophy and relegated Hobbes's contributions in science to the dustbin of history. Hobbes never became a Fellow of the Royal Society — blackballed, it appears, by Boyle and ...
... physics and chemistry, that Boyle eclipsed Hobbes in natural philosophy and relegated Hobbes's contributions in science to the dustbin of history. Hobbes never became a Fellow of the Royal Society — blackballed, it appears, by Boyle and ...
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... physicist Guillaume Amontons, regarded as a relatively obscure figure today, but one whose work provided a critical foundation for others in the exploration of the cold, even well into the twentieth century. The son of a provincial ...
... physicist Guillaume Amontons, regarded as a relatively obscure figure today, but one whose work provided a critical foundation for others in the exploration of the cold, even well into the twentieth century. The son of a provincial ...
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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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