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Looking at the history of thermodynamics, one might gain the impression that it not only started on the wrong foot, but that it continues to progress in a zig-zag way. For instance, thermodynamics is unusual in as much as its main measuring instrument, the thermometer, was constructed at least 100 years before we understandood what it was really measuring.
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Wilmański, K. (1998). Introduction. In: Thermomechanics of Continua. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58934-8_1
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