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IX.22 Thirty-degree thermometer
Maker: unknown
Place:Florence
Date:mid-17th cent.
Materials:glass
Dimensions:length 70 mm
Current inventory:70
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Minuscule thermometer graduated with small enamel dots, black for single degrees, white for ten degrees. It ends in a spherical bulb and it is divided into thirty degrees, one of the many thermometric scales adopted by the Accademia del Cimento. The thermometric liquid is acquarzente.

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