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'Galileo's thermometer', 1592. Artist: Galileo Galilei

'Galileo's thermometer', 1592. A 1994 copy of the air thermometer made by Galileo Galilei, the celebrated Italian scientist. This was probably the first instrument made for the measurement of temperature and consisted of a long thin glass tube fitted with a number of glass balls weighted to be of different densities in a liquid and arranged to sink one after the other as the temperature rose. This thermometer is more accurately known as a 'termometro infingardo'.
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'Galileo's thermometer', 1592. Artist: Galileo Galilei
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'Galileo's thermometer', 1592. A 1994 copy of the air thermometer made by Galileo Galilei, the celebrated Italian scientist. This was probably the first instrument made for the measurement of temperature and consisted of a long thin glass tube fitted with a number of glass balls weighted to be of different densities in a liquid and arranged to sink one after the other as the temperature rose. This thermometer is more accurately known as a 'termometro infingardo'.
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Album / Oxford Science Archive / Heritage Images
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2216 x 2836 px | 18.0 MB
Print size:
18.8 x 24.0 cm | 7.4 x 9.5 in (300 dpi)
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