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Mercury thermometer
Mercury thermometer mounted on a glass plate on which the centigrade scale is written in red ink. Housed in a box with two glass walls. One of the few surviving instruments signed by Felice Fontana, it was built in the workshop of the Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale.
Creator
- Felice Fontana
Publisher
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Subject
- Meteorology
- meteorology
Type of item
- Thermometer
- thermometers
Creator
- Felice Fontana
Publisher
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Subject
- Meteorology
- meteorology
Type of item
- Thermometer
- thermometers
Providing institution
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Rights
- © Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Creation date
- second half 18th cent.
- 1800
- 1751
Places
- Italian
Identifier
- urn:imss:instrument:410034
Extent
- height 554 mm, width 50 mm
Language
- eng
- ita
Is part of
- Lorraine collection
References
- http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/biography/FeliceFontana.html
Year
- 1751
- 1800
Providing country
- Italy