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IX.24 Box with thermometers
Maker: unknown
Place:Florence
Date:mid-17th cent.
Materials:box: leather, satin; thermometers: glass
Dimensions:225x315x270 mm
Current inventory:195, 2450
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The box contains seven glass instruments: a stem hydrometer; an infingardo [slow] thermometer; two fifty-degree thermometers; a seventy-degree thermometer; a thermometer with acquarzente and migliaruole [lead pellets], probably used to measure both temperature and density of liquids; and a clinical "frog" thermometer, added later. The seventy- and fifty-degree divisions are two of the many thermometric scales adopted by the Accademia del Cimento. The thermometric liquid is acquarzente.

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