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9780801871535 Academic Inspection Copy
  • A History of the Thermometer and Its Use in Meteorology

  • This history of the thermometer includes controversy about its invention, the story of different scales, Fahrenheit and centigrade, and the history of the gradual scientific then popular understanding of the concept of temperature. Not until 1800 did people interested in thermometers begin to see clearly what they were measuring, and the impetus ......
  • ISBN-13: 9780801871535 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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    AUD $71.99
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  • Local release date: 16/03/2003
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  • Categories: History of science [PDX]
9780801871542 Academic Inspection Copy
  • The History of the Barometer

  • For two centuries the barometer has been an indispensable laboratory instrument. Yet, despite its revolutionary influence on science, W. E. Knowles Middleton here offers the first complete history of the barometer as a scientific tool. Middleton relies on research from Western European documents and manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth ......
  • ISBN-13: 9780801871542 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Price:
    AUD $71.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Local release date: 16/03/2003
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Categories: History of science [PDX]
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