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Thirty-degree thermometer
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      mid-17th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass
    • Dimensions:
      length 225 mm
    • Inventory:
      216
    • Thirty-degree thermometer (Inv. 216)

Thermometer divided into thirty degrees, one of the many thermometric scales adopted by the Accademia del Cimento. The thermometric liquid is acquarzente. The capillary tube, ending in a cylindrical bulb, is marked with small enamel dots, black for single degrees, and yellow for ten degrees.