A short history of temperature measurements and temperature scales
Posted on Mo 16 Mai 2016 in blog • Tagged with temperatur, geschichte-history, philo-mechanicus, griechenland-greece, antike-antiquity, islam, mittelalter-middle-ages, renaissance, ole-romer, heron-von-alexandria, santorio-santorio, daniel-gabriel-fahrenheit, rene-antoine-ferchault-de-reaumur, joseph-nicolas-de-l-isle, anders-celsius, carolus-linnaeus, william-thomson, si-einheiten-si-units
Today, temperature seems a straightforward idea that is easy to measure. But like all scientific concepts that are tought in schools, it has not always been so obvious. Thousands of years, many careful and dedicated researchers and knowledge exchange across times and cultures were necessary before we began to understand …
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