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- catalog abstract ""In a sweeping science adventure story, rich with historical characters, including Galileo, Newton, and Einstein, Tom Shachtman takes us on a journey in which the extraordinary secrets of cold are teased apart and mastered, bringing advances in civilization and comfort. Starting in the 1600s with an alchemist's attempt to air condition Westminster Abbey and the invention of thermometers and scales (where should zero be set?), the story unfolds as nineteenth-century merchants sell Walden Pond ice to tropical countries and competing scientists pursue absolute zero with as much fervor as the races toward the North and South Poles aroused."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11495986.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""In a sweeping science adventure story, rich with historical characters, including Galileo, Newton, and Einstein, Tom Shachtman takes us on a journey in which the extraordinary secrets of cold are teased apart and mastered, bringing advances in civilization and comfort. Starting in the 1600s with an alchemist's attempt to air condition Westminster Abbey and the invention of thermometers and scales (where should zero be set?), the story unfolds as nineteenth-century merchants sell Walden Pond ice to tropical countries and competing scientists pursue absolute zero with as much fervor as the races toward the North and South Poles aroused."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-249) and index.".
- catalog description "Winter in Summer -- Exploring the Frontiers -- Battle of the Thermometers -- Adventures in the Ice Trade -- The Confraternity of the Overlooked -- Through Heat to Cold -- Of Explosions and Mysterious Mists -- Painting the Map of Frigor -- Rare and Common Gases -- The Fifth Step -- A Sudden and Profound Disappearance -- Three Puzzles and a Solution -- Mastery of the Cold.".
- catalog extent "261 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Absolute zero and the conquest of cold.".
- catalog identifier "0395938880".
- catalog isFormatOf "Absolute zero and the conquest of cold.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co.,".
- catalog relation "Absolute zero and the conquest of cold.".
- catalog subject "536/.56 21".
- catalog subject "Low temperature research.".
- catalog subject "QC278 .S48 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Winter in Summer -- Exploring the Frontiers -- Battle of the Thermometers -- Adventures in the Ice Trade -- The Confraternity of the Overlooked -- Through Heat to Cold -- Of Explosions and Mysterious Mists -- Painting the Map of Frigor -- Rare and Common Gases -- The Fifth Step -- A Sudden and Profound Disappearance -- Three Puzzles and a Solution -- Mastery of the Cold.".
- catalog title "Absolute zero and the conquest of cold / Tom Shachtman.".
- catalog type "text".