Then Galileo came up with the idea of increments that are measurable.
That was essentially how the Greeks and everyone before them in Western and even in Eastern science or philosophy was thinking about temperature. It’s not just cold, less cold, fine, warm, hot, really hot. “Oh, well, look at what we just found in 1602!”įor instance, in the early 1600s Galileo invented the idea of temperature. So we created a Google document and just kept adding things. But the more I poked around, surprises kept emerging. Here I’d been writing about climate change and big weather events for 30 years, and you might think I could just dive right in. It became kind of … I wouldn’t say a competition, but a game. Well, my wife is an environmental educator and she helped me write this. How did you decide which moments in history to include in your book?
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