Hasok Chang: 2 books
Inventing Temperature
Measurement and Scientific Progress
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2004
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...
Is Water H2O?
Evidence, Realism and Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
This book exhibits deep philosophical quandaries and intricacies of the historical development of science lying behind a simple and fundamental item of common sense in modern science, namely the composition of water as H2O. Three main phases of development are critically re-examined, covering the...