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title: "Absolute Zero And The Conquest Of Cold"
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# Absolute Zero And The Conquest Of Cold

**Brand:** tom shachtman
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- **What is this?** Absolute Zero And The Conquest Of Cold by tom shachtman
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Absolute Zero And The Conquest Of Cold

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## Customer Reviews

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    Simply unreadable
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2009*

I'm really interesting in the pursuit of absolute zero. And this seemed like the book. I confess, I've struggled with it, even trying to skip sections, but I just can't make it through it. It's not just that it's historical rather than scientific writing -- I expected that. It's that Shachtman seems to follow the Kitchen Sink theory of writing, and has to insert every factoid he possesses about every story, whether it's relevant or not.For instance, his opening story -- a grabber about one of the first public presentations of cooling a room -- starts off well enough with Cornelis Drebbel. And it would be a good story. However, soon, we're into the family histories of everyone even tangentially connected. Did we really need to know (we're just on page 5 mind you, the experiment hasn't even begun) that "Assisting Drebbel were, in all likelihood, Abraham and Jacob Kuffler, Dutch brothers who had come to England that year, begun apprenticeships with him, and concocted a scheme in which one or the other would marry Drebbel's daughter..."Here we have a digression which is not only irrelevant, but also pertaining to two men who may not even have been present. This sort of writing is not just irritating, it's downright discouraging. And symptomatic of the whole book. So disappointing... I was really looking forward to reading this one.  Purchase at your own peril.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    very deep story
  

*by L***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 3, 2020*

wan’t excatly what i thought when i was attracted by the title. it was a good book, but it is more about science not the history i thought. but still a good history of the science of cold.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Wonderful
  

*by V***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2000*

If you are interested in science, scientists and its history; If all you remember from your science classes are the names of  scientists like Boyle, Van der waals and Joule; if you are ready to be taken on a fantastic ride into the realms of the cold and the story of its conquest.... This is the book for you.I really enjoyed it very much. Not only did I get a better perspective of physics and chemistry but I was surprised at the amount of work that had gone into the construction of the common refrigerator or the air conditioner, to which we never pay any attention. And the personal touch the author added really helped me feel like I was with the scientists when each discovery was being made. Now, I feel like I know Dewar and Joule well enough to call them by their first names!

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