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thermoscope

Term: thermoscope

Literally meaning: ?that which observes the temprature?

Origin: Anc Greek

??????/thermos(=warm) >????/thero(=to warm, to heat)

+ ??????/scopeo(=aim, look at, observe)

Coined/History

The Italian physicist and astromer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) invented in 1597 a water thermoscope.

Definition

The thermoscope was the early type of the thermometer which contained a liquid sensitive to temperature changes without a numerical scale.

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