A thermometer
Date
21 April 1700
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p31
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Dimensions
height (page): 242mm
width (page): 177mm
width (page): 177mm
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Description
Figure of a thermometer for measuring the coldness of mixtures of different salts. The paper, which was an extract from Etienne Geoffroy's presentation at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris (21 April 1700), was read to a meeting of the Royal Society on 11 December 1700, and published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 22, no. 274 (1701), pp. 951-62.
Object history
11 December 1700, 'There was read a Paper of Mr Geoffry, being several Experiments tried by him, to shew the Cold coming from the mixture of several sorts of salts' (JBO/10/206).
E. F. Geoffroy, ‘Observations Upon the Dissolutions and Fermentations Which We May Call Cold, because They are Accompanied with a Coolness of the Liquors into Which They Pass. And of a New Thermometer’, Phil. Trans., vol. 22, no. 274 (1701), pp. 951-62 (explanation of instrument at p. 961).
E. F. Geoffroy, ‘Observations Upon the Dissolutions and Fermentations Which We May Call Cold, because They are Accompanied with a Coolness of the Liquors into Which They Pass. And of a New Thermometer’, Phil. Trans., vol. 22, no. 274 (1701), pp. 951-62 (explanation of instrument at p. 961).
Related fellows
Etienne Francois Geoffroy (1672 - 1731, French) , Physician
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