Inventing Temperature
Measurement and Scientific Progress
Series: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 February 2008
- ISBN 9780195337389
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 231x155x20 mm
- Weight 431 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Black and white throughout. 40
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Short description:
Chang examines how scientists first created thermometers; how they measured temperature beyond the reach of standard thermometers; and how they managed to assess the reliability and accuracy of these instruments without a circular reliance on the instruments themselves.
MoreLong description:
What is temperature, and how can we measure it correctly? These may seem like simple questions, but the most renowned scientists struggled with them throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. In Inventing Temperature, Chang examines how scientists first created thermometers; how they measured temperature beyond the reach of standard thermometers; and how they managed to assess the reliability and accuracy of these instruments without a circular reliance on the instruments themselves.
In a discussion that brings together the history of science with the philosophy of science, Chang presents the simple yet challenging epistemic and technical questions about these instruments, and the complex web of abstract philosophical issues surrounding them. Chang's book shows that many items of knowledge that we take for granted now are in fact spectacular achievements, obtained only after a great deal of innovative thinking, painstaking experiments, bold conjectures, and controversy. Lurking behind these achievements are some very important philosophical questions about how and when people accept the authority of science.
the most important book on this subject since Bridgman's classic work of 1927... Chang's book should become mandatory reading for anyone who wants to pursue the problem of measurement further.
Table of Contents:
Keeping the Fixed Points Fixed
Spirit, Air, and Quicksilver
To Go Beyond
Theory, Measurement, and Absolute Temperature
Measurement, Justification, and Scientific Progress
