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Tall-stem thermometers
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      mid-17th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass
    • Dimensions:
      min. height 660 mm, max. 1130 mm
    • Inventory:
      16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 25, 26, 160, 163, 164, 166, 167, 169, 170, 171
    • Tall-stem thermometers (Inv.16-18, 20, 21, ...)
    • Tall-stem thermometers (Inv.16-18, 20, 21, ...)

Set of fifteen tall-stem thermometers; each rests on a round foot and ends in a small round bulb. 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.