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  2. Galileo thermometer - Wikipedia

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    A Celsius Galilean thermometer in two degree gradations. A risen orange orb denotes 24 °C. A Galileo thermometer (or Galilean thermometer) is a thermometer made of a sealed glass cylinder containing a clear liquid and several glass vessels of varying density. The individual floats rise or fall in proportion to their respective density and the ...

  3. Thermoscope - Wikipedia

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    Philo of Byzantium is credited with the construction of the first thermoscope (or Philo thermometer), an early version of the thermometer. [6] It is also thought, but not certain, that Galileo Galilei discovered the specific principle on which the device is based and built the first thermoscope in 1593.

  4. Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology

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    1612 — Santorio Sanctorius makes the first thermometer for medical use. 1617 — Giuseppe Biancani published the first clear diagram of a thermoscope 1624 — The word thermometer (in its French form) first appeared in La Récréation Mathématique by Jean Leurechon, who describes one with a scale of 8 degrees.

  5. List of Italian inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Galileo thermometer: invented by Galileo Galilei in 1593. Toffoli gate: a universal reversible logic gate invented by Tommaso Toffoli. Public toilets: latrines were part of the sanitation system of ancient Rome, placed near or as part of public baths .

  6. Timeline of meteorology - Wikipedia

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    1780 – James Six invents the Six's thermometer, a thermometer that records minimum and maximum temperatures. See (Six's thermometer) 1783 – In Lavoisier's article "Reflexions sur le phlogistique", he deprecates the phlogiston theory [45] and proposes a caloric theory of heat. [46] [47] – First hair hygrometer demonstrated.

  7. Temperature measurement - Wikipedia

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    A medical/clinical thermometer showing the temperature of 38.7 °C (101.7 °F) Temperature measurement (also known as thermometry) describes the process of measuring a current temperature for immediate or later evaluation. Datasets consisting of repeated standardized measurements can be used to assess temperature trends.

  8. Meteorological instrumentation - Wikipedia

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    In 1607, Galileo Galilei constructs a thermoscope. In 1643, Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer. [1] In 1662, Sir Christopher Wren invented the mechanical, self-emptying, tipping bucket rain gauge. In 1714, Gabriel Fahrenheit creates a reliable scale for measuring temperature with a mercury-type thermometer. [2]

  9. File:Galileo-thermometer-fig4.svg - Wikipedia

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    Filled inside of floats with white to show that they aren't full of liquid. 18:00, 7 September 2008: 260 × 360 (22 KB) MichaelFrey: wrong use of transparancy: 12:04, 20 January 2008: 260 × 360 (19 KB) Stannered