“We should care about the history of temperature because it is the history of how we came to quantitatively understand something that is not a thing.Temperature is immaterial, but it is also not an invisible or massless fluid.

It doesn’t have a particle of its own yet it is extremely prevalent.Even interstellar space, in its unimaginable emptiness – has a temperature that is above zero. The history of temperature, thus, represents an important paradigm shift. A natural philosophy embracing the fact that some ‘things’ are not things.”

Taken from ‘The Infinite Alphabet: And The Laws Of Knowledge’ by Prof Cesar Hidalgo