Dalton won big because he *wasn’t* a chemist, and simply redefined all the problems his theory couldn’t handle as “not chemistry.” [Kuhn]pic.twitter.com/UIXs0jBpx2
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Just reminded me of another fascinating book you might like: Hasok Chang's Inventing Temperature on early development of thermodynamicspic.twitter.com/rRoJS3YK5D
also comes with a great list of awful-in-retrospect temperature scales people considered:pic.twitter.com/F9pT4ALBWi
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Ontological primitives: anise oil, candle flame, deep caves, Paris. Highly evocative! Perhaps of Zork. ’Ware the grue!
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Just checked Chang's more recent stuff and quite a bit of it looks pretty Relevant To Your Interests http://cambridge.academia.edu/HasokChang
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Wow, yeah! I was already going to use water=H2O as an example, and he has a whole book on it!
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