Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat by Hans Christian Von Baeyer

Published 1999 · 66,000 words · about 4 hours at an average pace

How hard is Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat to read?

Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat scores 51 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Vocabulary: 55 out of 100
Physics vocabulary, carefully introduced.
Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
Clear expository sentences.
Abstraction: 68 out of 100
Entropy and time treated conceptually.
Information density: 58 out of 100
Moderate.

How Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat is regarded

Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat holds a literary regard score of 31 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.

About the author

Hans Christian Von Baeyer