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Tall-stem thermometers
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      mid-17th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass
    • Dimensions:
      min. height 1020 mm, max. 1065 mm
    • Inventory:
      282, 283, 2447, 2448
    • Tall-stem thermometers (Inv. 282, 283, 2447, 2448)
    • Tall-stem thermometers (Inv. 282, 283, 2447, 2448)

Four tall-stem thermometers resting on branched feet. The stems carry enamel buttons indicating the degrees of one of the thermometric scales used by the Accademia del Cimento. The black buttons indicate single degrees, the white buttons ten degrees, and the blue buttons one hundred degrees. The thermometric liquid is acquarzente.