History of the Thermometer and Its Uses in Meteorology

W. E. Knowles Middleton

250 pages, parution le 01/01/1966

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Extract from the preface

After finishing The History of the Barometer, I began to study with a view to writing a short history of all the ordinary meteorological instruments, but I soon came to the conclusion that the thermometer deserved a book to itself, and this volume is the result.

Readers of the earlier work will find a rather different emphasis in this one. This was necessary, for while the principles underlying the measurement of atmospheric pressure were discovered and accepted in a few decades of the seventeenth century, so that the history of the barometer for the succeeding three centuries is largely a record of technical progress, that of the thermometer is quite different. The instrument itself-at least the liquid-in-glass thermometer, its most important form-is relatively simple and structurally almost invariable. The interest in its history lies mainly in the controversies about its discovery and about the establishment of the various scales of temperature that have been in favor from time to time and in different places. Part of the difficulty of the subject is based on the circumstance that temperature is a concept of a rather special sort, quite different from such concepts as length, mass, and time, so that it was about 1800 before the people interested in thermometers began to see clearly what it was that they were measuring...

Air thermoscope and air thermometer
The invention of the liquid-in-glass thermometer
Seventeenth-century developments
The search for rational scales
Difficulties and refinements
Maximum and minimum thermometers
Deformation thermometers
Electrical thermometers
Recording thermometers
The exposure of thermometers

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Johns Hopkins
Auteur(s)	W. E. Knowles Middleton
Parution	01/01/1966
Nb. de pages	250
Format	15 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	420g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780801871535
ISBN13	978-0-8018-7153-5