A History of the Thermometer and Its Use in Meteorology

by W.E. Knowles Middleton and Professor W. E. Knowles Middleton

Book Overview

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 for improving thermometry came largely from study of the weather -- the liquid-in-glass thermometer became...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801804620
• ISBN13: 9780801804625
• Release Date: December 1966
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.