num_pages: 261
description: The history of "cold" covers the wide gamut of scientific inquiry into the subject, from the invention of the thermometer to the "air conditioning" of Westminster Abbey in the sixteenth century, to the latest revelations from the field of physics.
language: English
title: Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold
titlecomplete: Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold
genres: Science, Physics, Chemistry, Nonfiction, College, History, Technology, Microhistory
ratings_count: 229
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt