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Fifteen- and twenty-degree thermometers
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      mid-17th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass
    • Dimensions:
      length 115 mm, 105 mm
    • Inventory:
      179, 182
    • Fifteen- and twenty-degree thermometers (Inv. 179, 182)

Two compact thermometers graduated with small black and yellow enamel dots. One of the thermometers is divided into fifteen degrees, the other into twenty. Both stems end in a small spherical bulb at one end and a cylindrical one at the other. The thermometric liquid is acquarzente.