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Section of Room XVIII
 What’s the weather?

Reading instruments such as the barometer and thermometer to determine weather conditions became a routine occupation, thanks to the massive dissemination of these devices from the eighteenth century onward.

Objects
Catgut-rope hygrometer

Catgut-rope hygrometer

Inv. 2441
Maker unknown, French, 18th cent.

Mercury thermometer

Mercury thermometer

Inv. 2029
Dollond firm, London, late 18th cent.

Siphon barometer

Siphon barometer

Inv. 1142
Giovanni Domenico Tamburini [attr.], early 18th cent.

Stick barometer

Stick barometer

Inv. 697
Maker unknown, late 18th cent.

Wheel barometer

Wheel barometer

Inv. 1140
Santino Donegani, Italian, late 18th cent.