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Hygrometer glasses
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      mid-17th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass
    • Dimensions:
      height 50 mm
    • Inventory:
      99, 100
    • Hygrometer glasses (Inv. 99, 100)

Two small glasses graduated with enamel dots and resting on four small feet. They are, probably, accessories for small condensation hygrometers. The graduated glass was placed under the hygrometer to collect the condensation water from the outer surface of the hygrometer cone. The quantity of water collected in the glass in a given time was a relative measure of atmospheric humidity (see inv. 2443, 276).