2012, ISBN: 9781235751189

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1780. Excerpt: ... Qui vel colons virer, it calorcm ipsum vcluti in gradut partiri, vel matrix cut inditu1 est copiam quantitatemquc distinc7opercipere, itc. Utinam id allii 6f p/icaciari praditi ingenio, it quibus in summa tranqStillitate rcrum naturam perscrutari licuerit affequantur; ut homines non omnium modo sci%-itij, Jid emnium serc po&entes siant. Bernard1nus Tkles1us. St. Andrewst Aug. 1738. SOME OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS CONCERN-tNG THE CONSTRUCTION And GRADUATION O F THE It M OMETER S. WE cannot enTugh commend and admire that excellent invention of Thermometers, wheceby we are enabled to make some judgment of the various degrees of beat iu bodies. It is not our business at present to determine to whom we owe that noble and useful discovery; whether to Sanctorio, to Galileo, to Father Paul, or to Drebbel: for I find it aihibed to A.., all. all these by their respective favourers and admirers . At firsts as is thefate of all other inventions, Thermometers were but rude and imperfect machines, and not eas1ly to be applied to so many purposes as came afterwards to be in use:-They were very clumsy; and, as the various degrees of heat.were pointed by the different contraction or expansion of air, they came afterwards to be found trn-ccrtain, and sometimes deceiving measures of heat; As the bull; of air was affected not only by the dif The invention is given to Drebbel by his countrymen Boerhaaye (Chenr. I. 152, 156.) and-'Musschenbroek Exp. Acad. Cim. Add. p. 8. Ess. ilc Pl1ys. § 94j). Fulgeuzio (Life of Father Paul, p. m. 1 j8.) ascribes it to £« master Father Paul Sarpi, that great oracle of the republic of Venice. But there was an hiour prevailed, in those days, of fa thering almost all the curious discoveries of the age on that areat statesman ... Weight:0.18 lbs, General Books LLC, 2/6/2012 0:00:00<