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Hundred-degree thermometer
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      mid-17th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass
    • Dimensions:
      height 270 mm
    • Inventory:
      172
    • Hundred-degree thermometer (Inv. 172)

Thermometer divided into one hundred degrees, one of the many thermometric scales adopted by the Accademia del Cimento. The thermometric liquid is acquarzente. The degree divisions are indicated by small enamel dots. The instrument was placed on a round foot (now broken).