Ebook: Inventing temperature: measurement and scientific progress
Author: Chang Hasok
- Tags: Temperatur--Geschichte, Temperature measurements--History, Temperaturmessung, Temperaturmessung--Geschichte, Thermometer, Thermometers--History, Science--Philosophy, Temperature measurements, Thermometers, Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge, History, Temperature measurements -- History, Thermometers -- History, Science -- Philosophy, Temperaturmessung -- Geschichte, Temperatur -- Geschichte, Messung -- Geschichte
- Series: Oxford studies in philosophy of science
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Messung;Oxford
- Edition: 2nd print
- Language: English
- epub
This book presents the concept of "complementary science" which contributes to scientific knowledge through historical and philosophical investigations. It emphasizes the fact that many simple items of knowledge that we take for granted were actually spectacular achievements obtained only after a great deal of innovative thinking, painstaking experiments, bold conjectures, and serious controversies. Each chapter in the book consists of two parts: a narrative part that states the philosophical puzzle and gives a problem-centred narrative on the historical attempts to solve the puzzle; and the analysis part which provides in-depth analyses of certain scientific, historical, and philosophical aspects of the story.
Keywords: complementary science, scientific knowledge, history, philosophy of science
Keywords: complementary science, scientific knowledge, history, philosophy of science
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