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Regnault is discussed by [1] in his award winning book,
Inventing temperature. It presents Regnault as a radical empiricist. People doubted the precision of his
instruments and demanded that he produce the theory of temperature
to explain their correctness. Regnault said no. We do not need more theory and endless theory to confirm experimental
instruments. This is all discussed in the book.
I know all this because I read it when I was trying to understand the technology of my start-up. It would benefit
me if these ideas from Regnault are mentioned in this page. It would promote the technical work we have patented
building upon Regnault's empirical insight. Thus, it does not seem appropriate that I do those changes. Do people
agree? Could someone take a look at the book and vet the partiality of some sentences I could write about it
or write them themselves? This contribution of Regnault to the philosophy of science (is there no pure experiment devoid
of further theory?) seems interesting and noteworthy enough to be included in the page. Andres Corrada
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