Inventing Temperature

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Mentioned by

Mentioned by

Nicole Rust

as a book describing how researchers traversed from a sense of hot and cold to thermodynamics.

Recommended by John Krakauer, impacting

Paul Middlebrooks

and

Nicole Rust

with its insights on scientific progress.

Mentioned by

Daniel Filan

as a book he's reading, popular in less-wrong spheres.

Mentioned by Tamler (via patron Noah Silbert) as an accessible history-of-science book with chapter-sized sections suitable for the tournament.

Mentioned by

Kenzie Cooperrider

as a book about the development of temperature measurement.

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