A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals About the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe
By Gino Segre
Categories: Science & Math
A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals About the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe (2002) by Gino Segre is a popular science book. Segre, a physicist, uses temperature as a thread linking many fields, from the workings of the human body and the evolution of life to climate, geology, the stars and the early universe. Along the way he tells the stories of the scientists who learned to measure heat and understand what it reveals.