Talk:Pictet's experiment
Latest comment: 6 months ago by PrimalMustelid in topic Did you know nomination
 | A fact from Pictet's experiment appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 November 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination edit
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by PrimalMustelid talk 23:15, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
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- ... that in 1790, ten years before the discovery of infrared heating of the Earth by the sun, Marc-Auguste Pictet demonstrated the apparent reflection of cold by mirrors? Source: Chang, Hasok (2007). Inventing temperature: measurement and scientific progress. Oxford studies in philosophy of science (1. issued as paperback ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 166-167
- ALT1: ... that in 1790, a "notorious" experiment demonstrated the apparent reflection of cold as well as heat? Source: Chang, Hasok (2007). Inventing temperature: measurement and scientific progress. Oxford studies in philosophy of science (1. issued as paperback ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 166-167
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- Comment: the image is interesting but probably not a good aspect ratio for the main page
Created by Corundumconundrum (talk). Self-nominated at 22:00, 24 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Pictet's experiment; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
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I see that this is your first submission. Very nice! And an interesting subject, too. I could stand to see a little more detail on the precise way it was disproven, though -- it requires quite a lot of pondering to infer the true mechanism of action from the reasoning given here. jp×g 00:12, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks, User:JPxG. I did not want to add what seemed to me like original research, so I've tried to elaborate a little with some information from sources. Let me know if I can add more. Ideally this would be helped by a diagram but I don't have one at hand. Corundum Conundrum (CC) 18:14, 27 October 2023 (UTC)