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Seventy-degree thermometers
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      17th cent.
    • Materials:
      thermometers: glass; stand: wood
    • Dimensions:
      220x210 mm
    • Inventory:
      192
    • Seventy-degree thermometers (Inv. 192)

Series of thermometers divided into seventy degrees. The thermometers are attached to a wooden board and end in small spherical bulbs. The graduations consist of black enamel dots for single degrees and white enamel dots for ten degrees. The thermometer liquid is alcohol.