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Thirty-degree thermometer
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      mid-17th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass
    • Dimensions:
      length 70 mm
    • Inventory:
      70
    • Thirty-degree thermometer (Inv. 70)

Minuscule thermometer graduated with small enamel dots, black for single degrees, white for ten degrees. It ends in a spherical bulb and it is divided into thirty degrees, one of the many thermometric scales adopted by the Accademia del Cimento. The thermometric liquid is acquarzente.