Editors:
- Discusses technological and scientific dimensions as well as cultural implications
- Contains details of the discovery of the unexpected and “bizarre” phenomena of superconductivity and superfluidity
- Focuses on issues related to the production and exploitation of artificial cold ?
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 299)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Investigating the Very Cold
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Front Matter
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Consuming Cold
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- 17th century experimental philosophy
- Artificial cold
- Domestic Ice-Making Machines
- Frozen foods
- History of low temperatures
- Kammerlingh Onnes
- Road to the Liquefaction of Hydrogen
- Superconductivity
- The physics of cold in the Cold War
- cryogenic laboratory
- cryogenics and its side effects
- how quantum mechanics became visible
- introduction of frozen foods in West Germany
Reviews
“In History of Artificial Cold, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues, editor Kostas Gavroglu has brought together a well-balanced and very readable collection of essays on the history of the investigation and use of ‘cold.’ … the collection is well worth reading. … As an instructor, I would certainly suggest it to a student as a starting point for more detailed research on the subject of cold in science and society.” (Andrew Ede, Metascience, December, 2014)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Kostas Gavroglu
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: History of Artificial Cold, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues
Editors: Kostas Gavroglu
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7199-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7198-7Published: 02 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0016-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7199-4Published: 19 November 2013
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 288
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Science, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics