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Hundred- and eighty-degrees thermometers
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      mid-17th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass
    • Dimensions:
      length 230 mm
    • Inventory:
      175, 176
    • Hundred- and eighty-degrees thermometers (Inv. 175, 176)
    • Hundred- and eighty-degrees thermometers (Inv. 175, 176)

The first of these two similar thermometers is divided into one hundred, one of the many thermometric scales adopted by the Accademia del Cimento. It has a spherical bulb and white enamel inscriptions ("Arno A3G Alla Tinozza A"). The second, divided into eighty degrees, carries the inscription "Alla Tinozza A Gradi 77 1/2 Arno A Gradi 47 1/2"). These markings refer to readings in the Arno river for the minimum temperature and in a tinozza [tub filled with hot water] for the maximum. The thermometric liquid is acquarzente.