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Article: Chang, Hasook. Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress.(Book review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- March 1, 2007
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CHANG, Hasook. Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xviii + 250 pp. Cloth, $65.00--There are two parts to this volume. One addresses how knowledge is constructed through experiments, then justified. The second emerges from this and argues for a new discipline, "complementary science." History and Philosophy of Science (HSP), the center of this new discipline, counteracts the loss of knowledge within the narrow focus of "specialist" science, to return science to its eighteenth-century meaning as natural philosophy.
Key developments in the history of thermometry in the eighteenth and early nineteenth ...